Doppler color flow imaging in the detection and quantitative measurement of the gastroduodenal artery blood flow.
The purpose of this article was to investigate the detection rate of gastroduodenal artery blood flow (GDABF), and to measure its velocity and volume flow rate using Doppler color imaging. The GDABF was detected in 40 of 41 (98%) normal subjects with longitudinal scanning and in 36 (88%) with transverse scanning. The velocity of the GDABF was 21 +/- 8 cm/sec (m +/- SD) and the volume flow rate was 67 +/- 20 mL/min. Without color Doppler, the vascular lumina of the GDA was demonstrated in 27 (66%) subjects by longitudinal scanning and in 26 (63%) by transverse scanning. The hemodynamics of the GDA were revealed noninvasively using Doppler ultrasonography in a patient with a malignant islet cell tumor of the pancreas and one with a ductal cell carcinoma of the pancreas.
Department of Medicine, Yokohama Higashi National Hospital, Japan.
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Uzawa
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Karasawa
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Sugiura
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Saotome
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Kita
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Fukuda
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Miki
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Togawa
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Kondou
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Matsutani
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D007516:Adenoma, Islet Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001158:Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003116:Color; D004386:Duodenum / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D013270:Stomach / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods