Accumulated evidence has revealed that endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) has had a
great impact on the clinical evaluation of pancreatic cancers. EUS can provide high …

Pancreatic cancer (PC) remains one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, and has a poor,
five-year survival rate of 5%. Although complete surgical resection is the only curative …

From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …

Background: Elastography is a newly developed dynamic technique that uses ultrasound
(US) to provide an estimation of tissue stiffness by measuring the degree of distortion under …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) can be treated with surgery, chemotherapy, and
radiotherapy. Despite medical progress in each field in recent years, it is still insufficient for …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Qualitative endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) elastography is an
accurate but subjective tool for the differential diagnosis of solid pancreatic masses. Second …

AIM: To evaluate the ability of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) elastography to distinguish
benign from malignant pancreatic masses and lymph nodes. METHODS: A multicenter study …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of
sonographic elastography and B-mode sonography individually and combined in the …

The history of the European Federation of Societies in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
(EFSUMB) is closely related to the general history of ultrasound. In the presented paper the …

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer. Negative prognosis is
mainly due to the late diagnosis in advanced stages, when the disease is already …