title: Pancreatic sparing of focal fatty infiltration.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe typical findings of focal fatty sparing of the pancreas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Computed tomography, ultrasonography, and/or magnetic resonance imaging were performed in seven patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In these patients, the area of sparing of fatty change was within the head or uncinate process of the pancreas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Differentiating pancreatic fatty sparing from true neoplasm by means of cross-sectional imaging obviates the need for invasive diagnostic studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia 19104.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Arger
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Langer
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography