Pancreatic hardness: Correlation of surgeon’s palpation, durometer measurement and preoperative magnetic resonance imaging features

Figure 2 Pancreas cancer with a hard pancreas. Magnetic resonance imaging of a 66-year-old male with pancreas head cancer who was found to have a hard pancreas (durometer measurement: 18 DU). The diameters of the pancreatic duct and parenchyma were 8 mm and 21 mm, respectively (A). The apparent diffusion coefficient value of the pancreatic parenchyma was 1.290 mm²/s (B). The signal intensity of the pancreas on in-phase imaging was 256.53 (C) and on opposed-phase imaging was 254.80 (D).