[Use of radiologic methods in the study of pancreatic arteries]

The intraorganic connections between separate arteries of the pancreas were studied in 26 dogs by methods of radioindication and radioisotope scanning. The results of measurings and the scannograms have shown the distribution of iodine-131 injected into the cranial pancreoduodenal artery to occur strictly within the limits of the head and the body of the pancreas. The radioactivity of tissues in the other parts of the pancreas was absent. The distribution of the isotope injected into the caudal pancreatic artery and into the pancreatic branches of the splenic artery was observed only in the uncinate process and in the caudal part of the gland. The data obtained show that in dogs the arteries of different parts of the pancreas are disconnected inside the organ.