Role of MDCT and CT Angiography in staging of pancreatic cancer | ||
| SVU-International Journal of Medical Sciences | ||
| Article 9, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 49-67 PDF (522.56 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/svuijm.2021.112028 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed H. H. Ali* 1; Mohammad T. M. Solyman1; Mohammad Z. A. Murad1; Alaa E. H. Mohammed2 | ||
| 1Radiodiagnosis Department , Sohag, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University | ||
| 2General Surgery Department, Sohag, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Objectives: Staging of pancreatic cancer including vascular staging by use of CT angiography with assessment of presence of direct invasion of surrounding structures or distant metastasis. Patients and Methods: In our study 50 patients with pancreatc cancer were examined with CT angiography to assessresectability and the presence or absence of vascular infiltration of 5 main peri-pancreatc vessels which are celiac artery (CA), superior mesenteric artery (SMA), common hepatic artery (CHA), superior mesenteric vein ( SMV) and portal vein (PV). We assessed five vessels in fifty patientsi.e two hundred and fifty vessels as a whole. Results: Twenty four patients were pre-operatively judged to be resectable or requiring surgical bypass due to jaundice. The remaining 26 patients were judged to be irresectable from the start and referred for chemotherapy or radio-therapy. Conclusion:CT angiography proved to be an important tool in assessing intra abdominal malignancy specially the cancer of the pancreas which in most of cases is missed by abdominal ultrasonography. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| MDCT; CT angiography and pancreatic cancer | ||
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