Pearls and pitfalls of imaging metastatic disease from pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a systematic review

Atif Zaheer; Vibhor Wadhwa; Joseph Oh; Elliot K Fishman

doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2015.04.017

Pearls and pitfalls of imaging metastatic disease from pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a systematic review

Clin Imaging. 2015 Sep-Oct;39(5):750-8. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2015.04.017. Epub 2015 May 7.

Authors

Atif Zaheer¹, Vibhor Wadhwa², Joseph Oh², Elliot K Fishman²

Affiliations

¹ The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21231; Pancreatitis Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21231. Electronic address: azaheer1@jhmi.edu.
² The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21231.

PMID: 25981735
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2015.04.017

Abstract

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a systemic disease due to the presence of metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis and local recurrence as well as distant metastatic disease after treatment in a majority of patients. Recognition of these metastatic sites may help in accurate staging and assessment of therapeutic response. The authors discuss and illustrate imaging findings of metastatic disease from pancreatic adenocarcinoma in different organ systems with emphasis on entities that can mimic metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Keywords: Adenocarcinoma; CT; Metastatic disease; Pancreas.

Publication types

Review
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Adenocarcinoma / pathology*
Female
Humans
Neoplasms, Second Primary / diagnostic imaging*
Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology*
Positron-Emission Tomography*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*