Distinguishing pancreatic cancer and autoimmune pancreatitis with in vivo tomoelastography

• Published in: European radiology Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 3366 - 3374
• Main Authors: Zhu, Liang, Guo, Jing, Jin, Zhengyu, Xue, Huadan, Dai, Menghua, Zhang, Wen, Sun, Zhaoyong, Xu, Jia, Marticorena Garcia, Stephan R., Asbach, Patrick, Hamm, Bernd, Sack, Ingolf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adenocarcinoma; Autoimmune Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Autoimmune Pancreatitis; Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal - diagnosis; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; Data processing; Diagnosis, Differential; Diagnostic Radiology; Diagnostic systems; Fluidity; Hepatobiliary-Pancreas; Humans; Imaging; In vivo methods and tests; Internal Medicine; Interventional Radiology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Malignancy; Mechanical properties; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neuroradiology; Pancreas; Pancreas - diagnostic imaging; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Pancreatitis; Performance evaluation; Radiology; Stiffness; Ultrasound; Viscosity; MRI; Autoimmune pancreatitis; Elastography; Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Objectives To prospectively investigate the stiffness and fluidity of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) with tomoelastography, and to evaluate its diagnostic performance in distinguishing the two entities. Methods Tomoelastography provided high-resolution maps...