title: Duodenal loop widening in pancreatic diseases.
abstract: The magnitude of the duodenal loop in patients with a variety of pancreas-associated disease has been accurately measured and compared with those values encountered in a series of normal subjects in order to assess if any widening had occurred. Using a Student's t-test all the patients with pancreatic disease were indistinguishable from the control subjects at the 5% level, and the validity of this effect as a diagnostic tool is questioned.
mesh_terms: D004386:Duodenum / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*