Diagnosis of Biliary-Pancreatic Disorders: Challenges and Progress
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 6814
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, we have witnessed remarkable progress in the diagnosis of biliary-pancreatic disorders thanks to advances in endoscopic procedures and image diagnosis (e.g., CT, MRI, EUS, ERCP, cholangioscopy, and pancreatoscopy). The diagnosis of early biliary-pancreatic cancer is obviously an important issue, and the aforementioned techniques can increase the chances of early biliary-pancreatic cancer detection; however, there are still significant gaps in our knowledge as regards the follow-up period and key findings. Advances in endoscopic devices including the EUS-FNA needle can improve the accuracy of malignant disease diagnosis and help us to obtain large tissue samples for next-generation sequencing. Tissue sampling under ERCP is not sufficient; however, new devices and methods can improve the diagnostic accuracy of histological and cytological diagnosis. The detection of the spread of malignant disease is also important in determining treatment. For benign diseases, differential diagnosis for the biliary and pancreatic duct stricture is important, while tissue sampling for benign diseases, including IgG4-related disease, is required for treatment decisions.
In this issue, we welcome manuscripts describing novel data, methods, devices, and reviews related to the topic of “Advances in the Diagnosis of Biliary-Pancreatic Disorders”.
Dr. Mitsuru Okuno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biliary-pancreatic cancer
- malignancy
- benign biliary
- stricture
- ERCP
- EUS
- EUS-FNA
- IgG4-related disease
