title: Sonographic findings in groove pancreatitis.
abstract: Groove pancreatitis is a rare form of chronic pancreatitis involving the anatomic plane between the pancreatic head and duodenum. The radiographic diagnosis remains challenging, and most patients undergo exploratory laparotomy on suspicion of a periampullary malignancy. The appearance of groove pancreatitis on transabdominal and intraoperative sonography has rarely been reported in the literature. The sonographic findings in our 2 patients included a hypoechoic thin area between the pancreatic head and duodenum, a hyperechoic and thickened wall of the adjacent duodenum, and a heterogeneous or hyperechoic dorsocranial part of the pancreatic head.
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Gastroenterologic, and Oncologic Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Ulica Banacha 1A, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland. mwronski@vp.pl
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wronski
authors.forename: Dominika
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Karkocha
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Slodkowski
authors.forename: Wlodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cebulski
authors.forename: Ireneusz W
authors.initials: IW
authors.lastname: Krasnodebski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D016577:Pancreaticoduodenectomy; D050500:Pancreatitis, Chronic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography