Endoscopic Ultrasonography Findings of Early and Suspected Early Chronic Pancreatitis

Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is associated with a risk of pancreatic cancer and is characterized by irreversible morphological changes, fibrosis, calcification, and exocrine and endocrine insufficiency. CP is a progressive disease with a poor prognosis and is typically diagnosed at an advanced stage. The Japan Pancreas Society proposed criteria for early CP in 2009, and their usefulness has been reported. Recently, a mechanism definition was proposed by the International Consensus Guidelines and early CP was defined as a disease state that is not based on disease duration. CP is diagnosed by computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and endoscopic cholangiopancreatography, which can detect calcification and dilation of the pancreatic ducts; however, detecting early CP with these modalities is difficult because subtle changes in early CP occur before established CP or end-stage CP. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is useful in the diagnosis of early CP because it allows high-resolution, close-up observation of the pancreas. In addition to imaging findings, EUS with elastography enables measurement of the stiffness of the pancreas, an objective diagnostic measure. Understanding the EUS findings of early CP is important because a histological diagnosis is problematic, and other modalities are not capable of detecting subtle changes in early CP.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) - 10(2020), 12 vom: 27. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Takasaki, Yusuke [VerfasserIn]
Ishii, Shigeto [VerfasserIn]
Fujisawa, Toshio [VerfasserIn]
Ushio, Mako [VerfasserIn]
Takahashi, Sho [VerfasserIn]
Yamagata, Wataru [VerfasserIn]
Ito, Koichi [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Akinori [VerfasserIn]
Ochiai, Kazushige [VerfasserIn]
Tomishima, Ko [VerfasserIn]
Saito, Hiroaki [VerfasserIn]
Isayama, Hiroyuki [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

EUS
Early CP
Journal Article
Review
Rosemont criteria

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Date Revised 26.12.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/diagnostics10121018

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318274744