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TL;DR: EUS elastography is a promising method that allows characterization and differentiation of normal pancreas, chronic pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer and enabled an optimal prediction of the types of pancreatic lesions.

TL;DR: Computer-enhanced dynamic analysis based on hue histograms of the EUS elastography movies represents a promising method that allows the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant lymph nodes, offering complementary information added to conventional EUS imaging.

TL;DR: VEGF-A is the most specific and prominent angiogenic factor among all family members and VEGFR-2 is themost important receptor in evaluating the angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer, so VEGF overexpression may be considered as a diagnostic marker and as a poor prognostic factor of the disease.

TL;DR: Several "red-flag" endoscopic techniques used to enhance visualization of the vascular pattern of preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions (e.g. trimodal imaging including autofluorescence imaging, magnifying endoscopy and narrow band imaging) are analyzed and may enhance the diagnosis and characterization of mucosal lesions in the GI tract.

TL;DR: Transabdominal real-time elastography is certainly a very useful method in depicting liver hardness, although it is incompletely tested in large multicenter studies.