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

Figure 3 Pancreas cancer with a soft pancreas. Magnetic resonance imaging of a 74-year-old male with pancreas head cancer who was found to have a soft pancreas (durometer measurement: 8 DU). The diameters of the pancreatic duct and parenchyma were 3 mm and 21 mm, respectively (A). The apparent diffusion coefficient value of the pancreatic parenchyma was 1.398 mm²/s (B). The signal intensity of the pancreas on in-phase imaging was 291.40 (C) and on opposed-phase imaging was 207.03 (D).