title: [Lymphangiography in the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis].
abstract: Numerous techniques exist for the biological and instrumental detection of chronic pancreatitis. Attention is here given to lymphangiography as a means of illustrating changes in lymph dynamics and node morphology, especially in the retro- and peripancreatic regions. A brief account of the technique is followed by the placing of more particular stress on the adoption of a variant whereby an inguinal route is preferred to a limb collector. Some conclusions are then offered with respect to the findings that can thus be obtained and their significant contribution to the differential diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis.
authors.affiliation: Ospedale Maria Vittoria di Torino, I Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Ginecologia.
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authors.lastname: Ciccolini
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008220:Lymphography; D050500:Pancreatitis, Chronic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*