[Endosonography: progress in the diagnosis of endocrine pancreatic tumors]

Publication

[Endosonography: progress in the diagnosis of endocrine pancreatic tumors]

Journal Paper/Review - Jun 16, 1992

Casanova C, Largiadèr F, Krestin G, Häcki W, Muller A, Wirth H P, Meyenberger Christa, Münch R, Altorfer J, Ammann R

Units

Gastroenterology/Hepatology

PubMed

1439402

Citation

Casanova C, Largiadèr F, Krestin G, Häcki W, Muller A, Wirth H, Meyenberger C, Münch R, Altorfer J, Ammann R. [Endosonography: progress in the diagnosis of endocrine pancreatic tumors]. Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin Praxis = Revue suisse de médecine Praxis 1992; 81:815-8.

Type

Journal Paper/Review (Deutsch)

Journal

Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin Praxis = Revue suisse de médecine Praxis 1992; 81

Publication Date

Jun 16, 1992

Issn Print

1013-2058

Pages

815-8

Brief description/objective

Diagnostic procedures for secreting endocrine pancreatic tumors comprise biochemical tests, CT scans, conventional abdominal sonography, angiography and occasionally MR imaging and isotope scans. Due to their small size, insulinomas and gastrinomas, the most common of these tumors, elude these diagnostic procedures. Preoperative sonography and CT scans were negative in over 60%, angiograms in 35% of the patients. The example of a patient with insulinoma demonstrates that in the future endosonography will offer itself as an accurate method with little risk.