EUS was developed in the 1980s to improve the imaging of the pancreas. Traditional transabdominal ultrasound imaging of the pancreas is hampered by intervening bowel gas, bone, and fat. By placing a ...

Your pancreas is about 6 inches long and shaped like a thin pear. The wide end is called the head. The tapering part in the middle is called the body, and the end is called the tail. About 15% of all ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancer types. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with ...

The pancreas is one of those organs that we neither think much about nor really know exactly what it does for us on a daily basis. These are just two of the reasons that the signs of pancreas problems ...