Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic and Biliary Disorders
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 147
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biliary tract diseases; pancreatic diseases; EUS
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, we have witnessed remarkable progress in the diagnosis of biliary–pancreatic disorders thanks to advances in endoscopic procedures and image diagnosis (e.g., CT, MRI, EUS, ERCP, cholangioscopy, and pancreatoscopy). The diagnosis of early biliary–pancreatic cancer is a pressing issue, and the aforementioned techniques can increase the chances of early biliary–pancreatic cancer detection; however, there are still significant gaps in our knowledge in relation to the follow-up period and key findings. Advances in endoscopic devices including the EUS-FNA needle can improve the accuracy of malignant disease diagnosis and help us to obtain large tissue samples for next-generation sequencing. Tissue sampling under ERCP is not sufficient; however, new devices and methods can improve the diagnostic accuracy of histological and cytological diagnosis. Detecting the spread of malignant disease is also important in determining the appropriate treatment. For benign diseases, differential diagnosis for the biliary and pancreatic duct stricture is important. Moreover, tissue sampling is required in benign diseases, including IgG4-related disease, to inform treatment decisions.
For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of novel data, methods, devices, and reviews related to this topic.
Dr. Mitsuru Okuno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biliary–pancreatic cancer
- malignancy
- benign biliary
- stricture
- ERCP
- EUS
- EUS-FNA
- IgG4-related disease
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