Figure 3.

Oblong shape of pancreatic cancer in the body/tail. The 15 sagittal slices of a distal pancreatectomy specimen are laid out in sequential order from upper left to lower right. Tumour tissue is visible from slice 3 (arrow) and extends through multiple subsequent slices. However, it is not clear which of the slices through the pancreatic tail contain tumour or just atrophic tissue. Microscopy revealed that only the two last slices were clear of tumour. The total length of the tumour (from slice 3 to 13, arrows; slice thickness: 4 mm) is 44 mm, which is considerably larger than the maximum dimension in the sagittal plane (34 mm, measured in slice 12) and corresponds with stage T3, not T2.