Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Pancreas rule 12 : Functioning pancreatic tumors


¨Functioning  tumors
¨Is islet cell tumor which is insulinoma, 75%, and gastrinoma ,20%
¨It may contain Calcium , this is very important to differentiate between Calcium due to chronic pancreatitis and that due to functioning tumor  or  pancreatic carcinoma which does not show Calcium
¨It is small lesion , but it can be detected by intra-operative ultrasound
¨It shows intense homogenous enhancement in dynamic phase

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