Sensitivity of Pancreatic Ultrasonography in the Detection of Pancreatic Disease

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  • TLThomas L. Lawson
    Thomas L. Lawson
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Abstract
Pancreatic ultrasonography was correct 87% of the time separating patients with a normal pancreas from those with an abnormality. Of those patients felt to have a normal pancreas by ultrasonography, only 81% wre ultimately found normal. In this group, errors occurred primarily in patients with chronic pancreatitis. An abnormal pancreatic ultrasonogram is significant and usually indicates disease; ultrasonography correctly identified 94% of those patients ultimately found to have an abnormal pancreas.