Failure to Diagnose Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome by Pancreatic Arteriography

Abstract

Description and discussion of a case in which the diagnosis of ulcerating cancer of the head of the pancreas with liver metastases was made from the Ba meal and visceral angiography. Autopsy and histological examination showed that a metastasising islet-cell carcinoma was present in the tail of the pancreas and that an inflammatory swelling of the head, due to several peptic ulcers, was misdiagnosed as cancer.