Pancreatic cancer develops from uncontrolled cell growth in the pancreas. Doctors may use an ultrasound to help detect pancreatic cancer as part of their diagnosis. Symptoms of pancreatic cancer can ...

Background A 72-year-old white male presented to a University Digestive Disease Center with epigastric pain and weight loss. A CT scan suggested that the patient had a mass in his pancreas and he was ...

Researchers report that endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) are 99.1 percent accurate in diagnosing pancreatic neoplasms (abnormal growths or ...

For many years, doctors and technicians who performed medical ultrasound procedures viewed bubbles with wary concern. The ...

Pancreatic cancer can be difficult to detect. Symptoms often don’t show until later stages, and there aren’t standard screening tests for this type of cancer. Abdominal and endoscopic ultrasounds are ...