Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancer

This book describes the pathways of dissemination of primary liver, biliary, and pancreatic neoplasms and proposes a practical and clinically driven approach to their imaging. The typical dissemination pathways for hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, exocrine pancreatic carcinoma, and neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors are systematically reviewed, and more unusual pathways are also documented. The content is presented in an extremely schematic way, with numerous high-quality graphical illustrations and multimodality images (US, CT, MRI, and PET) that are accompanied by clear explanatory text. The clinical significance of findings and potential therapeutic options are explained whenever appropriate. In addition, relevant background information is provided on the role of morphopathological drivers of cancer spread and anatomy.

Prof. Regge is Associate Professor at the University of Torino and Director of the Radiology Unit at the Candiolo Cancer Institute (Torino, Italy), where he also directs the Imaging and Data Processing Lab (IDP-Lab) composed of a multi-disciplinary team of radiologists, physicists, engineers and computer scientists. He is active in the development and clinical validation of computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for diagnosis of colorectal, breast and prostate cancer and has made important contributions in the field of prostate and colorectal cancer diagnosis.
He is president of the European Society of Oncologic imaging, President of the Informatics Chapter of the Italian Society of Medical Radiology (SIRM) and has held in the past various leadership positions including member of the ESR Leadership Institute, ESOR visiting professor, board member and secretary of the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) and president of the Computer Application Subcommittee of ECR 2016. He is also a reviewer for many journals, was subspecialty editor of European Radiology from 2012 to 2015 and has published 135 peer review articles and radiology textbooks.


Dr. Zamboni is staff member and head of body CT at the University of Verona’s Radiology Unit.
She has completed a fellowship in Computed Tomography at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA and was the recipient of the “ESR Albert L. Baert Editorial Fellowship” for 2014.
Her main interest is abdominal pathology, especially pancreatic and CT protocols.
She is author of 50 peer-reviewed publications, 1 book, 8 book chapters and more than 90 scientific contributions at national and international congresses, and has given about 40 invited lectures.
She is a Fellow of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR), and has been appointed International Visiting Professor for the RSNA for 2017.
Dr. Zamboni is also a reviewer for several international journals and is on the editorial board of European Radiology.
She is a member of the EPOS reviewer team for ECR and of the Radiographics poster evaluation panel for the General Imaging section at RSNA.