title: [Endosonography: progress in the diagnosis of endocrine pancreatic tumors].
abstract: Diagnostic procedures for secreting endocrine pancreatic tumors comprise biochemical tests, CT scans, conventional abdominal sonography, angiography and occasionally MR imaging and isotope scans. Due to their small size, insulinomas and gastrinomas, the most common of these tumors, elude these diagnostic procedures. Preoperative sonography and CT scans were negative in over 60%, angiograms in 35% of the patients. The example of a patient with insulinoma demonstrates that in the future endosonography will offer itself as an accurate method with little risk.
authors.affiliation: Departement für Innere Medizin, Chirugie und Medizinische Radiologie, Universitätsspitals Zürich.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Casanova
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Altorfer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Münch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyenberger
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Wirth
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Häcki
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Krestin
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Largiadèr
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ammann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000209:etiology; D007340:Insulinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Endosonographie: ein Fortschritt in der Diagnostik endokriner Pankreastumoren.