Pancreatic cancer is a poor prognostic tumor and about 20% of patients are eligible for surgical resection at the time of diagnosis. Recently, minimally invasive procedures have provided promising results as a therapeutic option for locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer. In particular, high-intensity focused ultrasound is an emerging noninvasive thermally ablative procedure that may have a dominant role in the future. Although the clinical applications of minimally invasive therapies to pancreatic cancers are still in their infancy, the results at present are promising
Nonoperative Ablation of Pancreatic Neoplasms / Marrocchio, C; Dababou, S; Catalano, C; Napoli, A. - In: THE SURGICAL CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA. - ISSN 0039-6109. - (2018). [10.1016/j.suc.2017.09.010]
Nonoperative Ablation of Pancreatic Neoplasms
Marrocchio C;Dababou S;Catalano C;Napoli A
2018
Abstract
Pancreatic cancer is a poor prognostic tumor and about 20% of patients are eligible for surgical resection at the time of diagnosis. Recently, minimally invasive procedures have provided promising results as a therapeutic option for locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer. In particular, high-intensity focused ultrasound is an emerging noninvasive thermally ablative procedure that may have a dominant role in the future. Although the clinical applications of minimally invasive therapies to pancreatic cancers are still in their infancy, the results at present are promisingI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
