[Value of echotomography in cancer of the pancreas]. / Valor de la ecotomografía en el cáncer de páncreas.
Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam
; 14(3): 213-24, 1984.
Article
em Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-6399428
We studied by ultrasound (U.S.) a diagnostic method, 87 cases with probable pancreatic cancer; 29 were confirmed surgically. We found an accurate diagnosis in 93.1% of the cases with 6.89% of false negatives and 19.54% of false positives. Likewise, 2.29% of the patients could not be explored by U.S. because they had important meteorism. Among the false positive cases the most important differential diagnosis for us was Chronic Pancreatitis. We conclude that U.S. is a certainly, high sensitive, specific, non invasive and not expensive method. Hence, for us, U.S. is one of the first diagnostic method that must be used when pancreatic neoplasm is suspected.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias Pancreáticas
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Ultrassonografia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam
Ano de publicação:
1984
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Argentina