RT Book, Section
A1 Schrope, Beth
A1 Lavotshkin, Simon
A1 Chabot, John
A2 Schrope, Beth
SR Print(0)
ID 57915867
T1 Chapter 8. Ultrasound of the Pancreas
T2 Surgical and Interventional Ultrasound
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-176762-0
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57915867
RD 2024/04/19
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.