Assessment of resectability of pancreatic carcinoma by endoscopic ultrasonography

Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology - Tập 1 - Trang 393-397 - 2004
Yantao Tian1, Ping Zhao1, Chengfeng Wang1, Guiqi Wang1, Jianxiong Wu1, Yi Shan1, Yongfu Shao1
1Department of Abdominal Oncology and Endoscopy, Cancer Hospital, Beijing Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

To study the value of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) in the preoperative assessment of resectability of pancreatic carcinoma. Thirty-eight non-selected consecutive patients were prospectively investigated using EUS to determine tumor resectability. The EUS findings in each of the patients were evaluated prospectively by 2 EUS specialists. All patients were explored and resectability determinded. Ten out of 38 cases with pancreatic carcinoma were considered to be resectable by EUS with a positive predictive value of 80% compared to findings with surgery. EUS also had a high correlation with surgical results in assessing unresectability of pancreatic carcinoma, the negative predictivevalue was 96.4%. There were 2 false -positive and 1 false -negative assessments (sensitivity, 88.9% and specificity, 93.1%). The accuracy of EUS was the highest. The diagnostic accuracy of EUS, CT, MRI and sonography were 97.4%, 94.6%, 89.5%, and 73.6% respectively. Endoscopie ultrasonography is an effective method to assess resectability of pancreatic carcinoma.

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