Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Techniques in Pancreatic Diseases
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 202
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pancreatic cancer is the second-most-frequent gastrointestinal malignancy and carries a poor quality of life and prognosis. The current standard of care is surgery resection, if possible, as well as systemic chemoradiation therapy in locally advanced, unresectable disease. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a well-established and valid technique for the diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer. Therapeutic EUS for the treatment of pancreatic neoplastic lesions is a rapidly expanding field with different options, including fine needle injection therapy, radiofrequency, cryothermal ablation and brachytherapy. A complete review of alternative EUS-guided ablative techniques will be extremely valuable in providing new directions for upcoming research.
Dr. Germana De Nucci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pancreatic cancer
- neuroendocrine tumor
- endoscopy ultrasound
- radiofrequency ablation
- fine needle injection therapy
- cryothermal ablation
- therapeutic endoscopy
- pancreas
