CYTOLOGIC DETECTION OF SMALL PANCREATICODUODENAL AND BILIARY CANCERS IN THE EARLY DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE

  • 1 January 1984
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 28  (4) , 435-442
Abstract
Employing pancreozymin-secretin stimulation and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiographic aspiration, cytologic examination for pancreaticoduodenal and biliary tract cancers was carried out in 763 patients, with 47 of 61 cancers cytologically detected (79%). The cancers detected included 7 min or small cancers less than 1.0 cm in maximum diameter, all of which were successfully surgically extirpated. Evidently diagnostic cytology contributed to the detection of cancers in these anatomic sites at an early developmental stage.