Solid Tumors of the Pancreas: A Review

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive human malignancies. The prognosis for patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer has remained extremely poor. Although there are a wide variety of pancreatic neoplasms, the majority of them are epithelial tumors and 90% of these are ductal adenocarcinomas and their variants. Multi?detector computed tomography (MDCT) has been widely accepted as the imaging technique of choice for diagnosing and staging pancreatic cancer, as it gives information about localization, size and extension of tumor, while being non?invasive.