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Gray-scale ultrasonic demonstration of peripancreatic adenopathy
M J Schnur1, J C Hoffman, M Koenigsberg
1Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
Abstract:
The ultrasonic appearance of peripancreatic adenopathy in ten patients is described. The enlarged nodes may appear as well-defined, echo-poor, ovoid or rounded masses in a retropancreatic location, or they may surround and silhouette the region of the pancreatic head and body. The former appearance should be easy to differentiate from primary pancreatic neoplasm, but with a confluent mass of peripancreatic nodes it may be impossible to exclude pancreatic disease.