title: [Pancreatic echography in infantile diabetes].
abstract: Our objective was to investigate the pancreatic ultrasonographic size in diabetic children in order to compare in with a healthy population of children and to relate it to the characteristics of their disease. Fifty-four children (age 8.59 +/- 3.38 years) with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus of short evolution and 23 healthy children of similar ages and sex were investigated. Anteroposterior measurement of pancreatic head, body and tail with real time ultrasonography were performed searching for a relationship of these factors with the acinar and residual insular function. The pancreatic measurements in the diabetic patients were sizeable smaller than in the healthy children with no relationship to age, height, weight or body surface. There were no differences in the pancreatic measurements in relationship to the evolution time or residual insular function in the diabetics.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Endocrinología Pediátrica y Crecimiento, Cátedra de Pediatría de la Universidad de Oviedo.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Rivas Crespo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Solis Sánchez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Crespo Hernández
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: García Hernández
mesh_terms: D001827:Body Height; D001830:Body Surface Area; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: La ecografía pancreática en la diabetes mellitus infantil reciente.