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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2018

Diagnostic Accuracy of a 64-Slice Multi-Detector CT Scan in the Preoperative Evaluation of Periampullary Neoplasms.

Shahryar Hashemzadeh, Behzad Mehrafsa, Farzad Kakaei, Reza Javadrashid, Rosa Golshan, Fatemeh Seifar, Farid Hajibonabi, Farzad Salmannezhad Khorami

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Shahryar HashemzadehDepartment of General & Vascular Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. shahriar_90@yahoo.com.
Behzad MehrafsaDepartment of General & Vascular Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. medicsonf@yahoo.com.
Farzad KakaeiDepartment of General & Vascular Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. fkakaei@tbzmed.ac.ir.ORCID 0000-0003-1632-7393
Reza JavadrashidDepartment of Radiology, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. rjrashid@hotmail.com.
Rosa GolshanDepartment of Radiology, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. rosa3606@yahoo.com.
Fatemeh SeifarStudent Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. f.seifar@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0387-6991
Farid HajibonabiStudent Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. f.bonabi@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3627-1916
Farzad Salmannezhad KhoramiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 5166/15731, Iran. medicsonf@gmail.com.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IR

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Abstract

Periampullary tumors are highly malignant masses with poor prognosis. Surgical resection is the only treatment for patients with this disease. The preoperative evaluation of masses is essential to determine the tumor resectability and vascular invasion. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of 64-slice multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) in detecting the resectability of periampullary masses. A cross-sectional study was conducted on patients with a definite diagnosis of periampullary cancer. All the participants underwent an MDCT scan before the surgical pancreaticoduodenectomy. The preoperative results were compared to the intraoperative findings and the diagnostic accuracy was determined based on the sensitivity and specificity of the MDCT. From June 2015 until June 2016, 32 patients with periampullary carcinoma were enrolled in the study. Of 32 masses, one of them considered nonresectable because of the gross vascular invasion in th CT images. After the operation, the overall resectability rate was 81.3%. The sensitivity and specificity of MDCT for tumor resectability was 100% and 16.7%, respectively, with an overall accuracy of 84.4%. To sum up, MDCT had high sensitivity but low specificity in the preoperative evaluation of preampullary carcinomas. The low specificity resulted from the low accuracy of the CT scan in detecting vascular involvement.

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diagnosismulti-detector computed tomographypancreasperiampullary carcinoma

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PMID29702569
PMCPMC5977130
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