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Sonography of Pancreatic Ductal Anatomic Characteristics in Annular Pancreas
Author(s) -
Vijayaraghavan S. Boopathy
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.2002.21.11.1315
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreas , duodenum , annular pancreas , anatomy , radiology , pathology
Annular pancreas is a rare developmental anomaly of the pancreas. The sonographic feature of this condition has been described as circumferential pancreatic tissue around the duodenum. Diagnosis of this condition by the sonographic visualization of ductal anatomic characteristics is described here.