The role of ultrasound in biliary and pancreatic diseases
| Autor: | Francesco Torresan, Lionello Gandolfi, L. Solmi, Annalisa Puccetti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pancreatic disease Acoustics and Ultrasonics Common bile duct business.industry Biliary Tract Diseases General Chemical Engineering Pancreatic Diseases Bioengineering Gallstones medicine.disease Pancreatic Neoplasms Biliary Tract Neoplasms medicine.anatomical_structure Biliary tract Pancreatic cancer medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology Ultrasonography Doppler Color Differential diagnosis Gallbladder cancer business Pancreas |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Ultrasound. 16:141-159 |
| ISSN: | 0929-8266 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0929-8266(02)00068-x |
| Popis: | The possibilities and the limits of transabdominal ultrasonography (US) in the diagnosis of bilio-pancreatic diseases are reviewed here in the light of the last 10 years' research. US remains the method of choice for the diagnosis of gallstones and is generally accepted as an initial imaging technique in gallstone complications, such as acute cholecystitis. Moreover the method can be useful for the detection of the biliary complications after laparoscopic cholecystectomy and after liver transplantation. US is still considered the first diagnostic procedure when stones are suspected in the common bile duct. The use of color Doppler can provide a differential diagnosis of gallbladder cancer with respect to other benign inflammatory or polypoid lesions. Color Doppler US allows to detect vascular complications of acute pancreatitis such as pseudoaneurysms. US is still considered useful for the initial screening of the pancreatic cancer. However, for staging other imaging techniques must be employed. With US useful informations are obtained in the diagnosis of cystic tumors of the pancreas and of pancreatic metastases. US is generally of little use for the diagnosis of endocrine tumors. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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