Keywords:
Neoplasia, Cancer, Surgery, Removal, Biopsy, Ultrasound, MR, CT, Pancreas, Oncology, Abdomen
Authors:
L. M. Florescu1, M. M. Florescu1, R. E. Meetescu 2, I. A. Gheonea1; 1Craiova/RO, 2Craiova, Do/RO
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-1088
Methods and materials
The study group included 32 patients (19 males,
13 females) diagnosed with pancreatic head cancers who were hospitalized in the Surgery Department of the County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Craiova during october 2016 – october 2018.
The Pathology Department of the County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Craiova examined the resection pieces.
All patients agreed to take part in this study.
Initially,
all patients underwent an abdominal ultrasonography (US),
followed by an abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan and an abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) sequences.
We used the MRI examination along with MRCP sequences to measure tumor dimensions and the diameter of the CBD and Wirsung duct.
We considered 6mm the highest normal value for the diameter of the CBD and 4mm the highest normal value for the diameter of the Wirsung duct [3].
In order to process all the information that we collected throughout our study,
we used SPSS Statistics 20 software (developed by IBM) to perform One-Way ANOVA and Chi-square tests.