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Ultrasound characteristics of the pancreas in children with cystic fibrosis
Author(s) -
Swobodnik W.,
Wolf Anna,
Wechsler J. G.,
Kleihauer E.,
Ditschuneit H.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870130707
Subject(s) - medicine , echogenicity , cystic fibrosis , pancreas , ultrasound , pancreatic disease , pancreatic duct , fibrosis , pancreatic function , radiology , anatomy , nuclear medicine
Eighteen patients (3 months to 16 years) with cystic fibrosis (CF) were examined with a real‐time mechanical sector‐scanner (5 MH transducer). Compared with age‐matched controls, each CF patient showed morphologic changes in the pancreas on abdominal ultrasound examination. A very common finding was a decrease in organ anterior–posterior diameters (CF versus controls: head, 1.25 ± 0.38 cm versus 2.44 ± 0.39 cm; body, 0.56 ± 0.35 cm versus 0.98 ± 0.3 cm; tail, 0.83 ± 0.28 cm versus 1.81 ± 0.38 cm) and a pronounced, age‐independent increase in tissue echogenicity. In younger patients, small cystic degenerations could be observed in the pancreatic tail. No correlation could be found between ultrasound morphology, especially pancreatic duct imaging, and exocrine pancreatic function.