Staging Pancreatic Carcinoma and Liver Carcinoma using CT SCAN:
Staging Carcinoma CT Scan
By: Harry H. Holdorf
This presentation discusses the utilization of Computed tomography (CT or CAT scan), a noninvasive diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce horizontal, or axial, images (often called slices) of the body, and covers the following topics:
- Computed Tomography
- Patient preparation
- Diabetic patients
- Pre-diagnosis imaging
- Limitations of CT scanning
- Average radiation dose
- Pancreatic Carcinoma
- Anatomy of the pancreas
- Normal pancreas
- Stages of pancreatic cancer
- Pancreatic carcinoma stats
- Clinical Syptoms
- CT Protocol
- Early & Late Portal Phase
- CT of Pancreatic Carcinoma/Abnormal Pancreas
- Treatment
- Liver Carcinoma
- CT Liver anatomy
- Liver carcinoma stats
- Clinical symptoms
- Blood work
- Imaging to enhance Liver CT
- Post diagnosis imaging
- CT imaging
- Incidental findings
