A case of occult insulinoma localized by pancreatic dynamic enhanced spiral CT.
Insulinomas are the most common category of pancreatic endocrine tumors, with an annual incidence of 1-4 cases per million people. Most are intrapancreatic, benign and solitary. Therefore, they have an excellent prognosis after surgical resection. However, the localization diagnosis of insulinomas still poses a challenge to surgeons and radiologists. In this case, the tumor was occult and could not be found by either abdominal enhanced spiral computed tomography (CT) or ultrasonography. Therefore, we tried a new method of CT scanning and localized the tumor.
Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China.
Zhao-Kang
ZK
Bao
Xin-Yu
XY
Huang
Jun-Gong
JG
Zhao
Qi
Q
Zheng
Xiao-Feng
XF
Wang
Hong-Cheng
HC
Wang
D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007340:Insulinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography
D001786:Blood Glucose