Surgical Diagnosis and Management of Inflammatory Diseases in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Systems

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled “Surgical Diagnosis and Management of Inflammatory Diseases in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Systems”, shifts the focus from purely therapeutic interventions to the critical role played by surgery in diagnosis, risk stratification, and guiding management. We seek to explore how surgical and interventional techniques provide definitive diagnoses for complex inflammatory conditions that are indeterminate on noninvasive imaging. Key themes include the diagnostic utility of surgery in differentiating inflammatory masses from malignancies, the prognostic value of specific intraoperative and histopathological findings, and the use of advanced imaging and biomarker analysis to inform surgical timing and strategy. This Special Issue will serve as a comprehensive resource detailing the integral role played by surgical diagnostics in achieving precision medicine for patients with challenging hepatobiliary and pancreatic inflammatory diseases.

Dr. Roberto Cotellese
Dr. Federico Selvaggi
Guest Editors

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