Gray-scale ultrasonography and endoscopic pancreatography in pancreatic diagnosis.
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 134 (2), 453-459
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.134.2.7352230
Abstract
Ultrasonography and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) were performed in 216 patients with known or suspected pancreatic disease. Both techniques provided accurate information in all groups of patients (normal and those with recurrent acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis and cancer), and there were no complications. Ultrasound scans gave more information concerning pseudocysts and were more often abnormal than pancreatograms in patients with recurrent acute pancreatitis. The combination of ultrasonography and ERCP constitutes a comprehensive diagnostic approach to patients with upper abdominal problems. The roles of other diagnostic tests for the pancreas, such as computed tomography, isotope scanning, function tests and angiography, are also discussed briefly.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Ultrasound and False Normal Oral CholecystogramArchives of Surgery, 1978
- CT Scanning and Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Pancreatic Pseudocysts: A Preliminary ComparisonRadiology, 1978