TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 8. Ultrasound of the Pancreas A1 - Schrope, Beth A1 - Lavotshkin, Simon A1 - Chabot, John A2 - Schrope, Beth PY - 2014 T2 - Surgical and Interventional Ultrasound AB - Evaluating the pancreas is part of the standard diagnostic ultrasound examination of the abdomen. As the pancreas lies in a midline retroperitoneal location behind hollow viscera, transabdominal ultrasound is often challenging. While CT, MRI, and EUS are perhaps preferred modes of imaging the pancreas, transabdominal ultrasound remains an indispensible tool as an initial examination, in a sense acting as a gateway to the more invasive and/or expensive modalities. Furthermore, ultrasound (in all its forms) is invaluable in image-guided procedures, where CT or MRI may prove to be unwieldy. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/09 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57915867 ER -