Part 1: Types of Lesions

Chapter 1: Classification of Pancreatic Lesions

James J. Farrell

Chapter 2: Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Sunil Amin, Christopher J. DiMaio

Chapter 3: Less Common Solid Tumors of Pancreas

Saurabh Chawla, Parit Mekaroonkamol, Field F Willingham

Chapter 4: Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas

Wiriyaporn Ridtitid, Mohammad Al-Haddad

Chapter 5: Autoimmune pancreatitis

Urban Arnelo, Caroline Verbeke, Nikolaos Kartalis, J.-Matthias Löhr

Chapter 6: Pancreatitis-related pancreatic masses: Chronic Pancreatitis

Chris E. Forsmark

Part 2: Diagnosis

Chapter 7: Radiographic imaging

Nikolaos Kartalis, Matthias Johannes Löhr

Chapter 8: EUS Imaging in the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Masses

Pradermchai Kongkam, Rungsun Rerknimitr

Chapter 9: Contrast-enhanced EUS

Masayuki Kitano

Chapter 10: Endoscopic Ultrasonography: Role of EUS Sampling in Solid Pancreas Lesions

James L. Buxbaum, Mohamad A. Eloubeidi

Chapter 11: Endoscopic Ultrasonography: Role of EUS sampling in Cystic lesions

Abdurrahman Kadayifci, William R. Brugge

Chapter 12: Role of ERCP in Diagnosing Pancreatic Masses

Ioana Smith, M. Kahaleh

Chapter 13: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP): Pancreatoscopy for the evaluation of pancreatic neoplasia

Ihab I. El Hajj, Raj J. Shah

Chapter 14: Recent Advances in Cytologic and Histologic Specimen Evaluation, FISH and Molecular Markers

Ferga C. Gleeson, Michael J. Levy

Chapter 15: Evaluation and Surveillance Strategies for Patients at Increased Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

Jennifer Nayor, Shilpa Grover, Sapna Syngal

Chapter 16: Differential Diagnosis and Diagnostic Evaluation Algorithm

Michael Bartel, Milena Di Leo, Massimo Raimondo

Part 3: Treatment: Solid lesions and Cystic lesions

Chapter 17: Surgery for Solid Pancreatic Neoplasms

Moshim Kukar, Steven N. Hochwald

Chapter 18: Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

R. Charles Nichols

Chapter 19: Chemotherapy

Sarunas Sliesoraitis, Thomas J. George, Jr.

Chapter 20: Endoscopic therapy: ERCP based therapy

Ichiro Yasuda

Chapter 21: Endoscopic therapy: EUS-based therapy

Takao Itoi

Chapter 22: Endoscopic Therapy of Gastric Outlet Obstruction

Emmanuel C. Gorospe, Barham Abu-Dayyeh, Louis M. Wong Kee Song

Chapter 23: Management of Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas

Raymond S. Tang, Thomas J. Savides

Part 4: Recent Advances

Chapter 24: Recent Advances and Novel Treatments of Pancreatic Masses

Jason B. Samarasena, Kenneth J. Chang