Multidisciplinary Teaching Atlas of the Pancreas Radiological, Surgical, and Pathological Correlations /

• Main Authors: Casillas, Javier (Author), Levi, Joe U. (Author), Quiroz, Alexander O. (Author), Ruiz-Cordero, Roberto (Author), Garcia-Buitrago, Monica T. (Author), Sleeman, Danny (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Gastroenterology.; Pathology.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.

This innovative teaching atlas provides the reader with a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of the common and uncommon diseases that may involve the pancreatic gland. Its perspective is multidisciplinary, the authors being radiologists, surgeons, pathologists, and gastroenterologist...

Table of Contents:

• General: Embryology of the pancreas
• Anatomy of the pancreas
• Histology of the pancreas
• Physiology of the pancreas.- Imagenology of the pancreas
• Cystic Masses of the Pancreas: Serous Cystadenomas
• Mucinous Cystoadenomas
• Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm. Solid Masses of the Pancreas: Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
• Acinar tumor of the pancreas
• Pancreatic Lymphoma
• Unusual tumor of the pancreas
• Pancreatic metastases
• Inflammatory Conditions of the Pancreas: Acute pancreatitis
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Pancreatic pseudocyst
• Autoimmune pancreatitis
• Trauma of the Pancreas: Pancreatic Trauma
• Pancreatic Surgery: Pancreas transplant
• Surgical Procedures of the Pancreas
• Gallery of Cases.