title: Detection of pancreatic pathology by ultrasonography and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
abstract: Retrospective evaluation of the results of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and pancreatic ultrasonography in identifying those patients with a normal pancreas and those with a pancreatic abnormality revealed ultrasonography to have an overall accuracy of approximately 73%, whereas ERCP had an 85% accuracy, and both modalities had a combined accuracy of 92%. Both procedures were most accurate in the identification of patients with no disease, and both were least accurate in the identification of patients with chronic pancreatitis.
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D002758:Cholangiography; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D010183:Pancreatic Ducts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014463:Ultrasonography