Items tagged “pancreas”
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Acute pancreatitis
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15 Oct 2010
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Agenesis of the dorsal pancreas
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20 Oct 2010
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Pancreatic trauma
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20 Oct 2010
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Islet-cell tumor of the pancreas
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19 Dec 2010
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Paraduodenal pancreatitis
Paraduodenal pancreatitis is an uncommon type of focal chronic pancreatitis affecting the groove between the head of the pancreas, the duodenum and the common bile duct.
Terminology
The following entities with which it shares clinicopathological features are unified by this term and should no ...
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Chronic pancreatitis
Chronic pancreatitis represents the end result of a continuous, prolonged, inflammatory, and fibrosing process that affects the pancreas. This results in irreversible morphologic changes and permanent endocrine and exocrine pancreatic dysfunction.
Epidemiology
The most common cause of chronic ...
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Serous cystadenoma of the pancreas
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01 Jan 2011
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MEN I with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
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08 Jan 2011
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Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET), also known as endocrine tumors of the pancreas, arise from pancreatic ductal stem cells and include some distinct tumors that match the cell type of origin.
Terminology
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors have commonly been referred to as "islet cell tumo...
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Insulinoma
Insulinomas are the most common sporadic endocrine tumor of the pancreas.
On imaging, they usually present as small well-defined hypervascular tumors that may be found anywhere in the pancreas.
Epidemiology
Account for 40% of syndromic pancreatic endocrine tumors. The overall incidence is of...
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Whipple triad
Whipple triad is the clinical presentation of pancreatic insulinoma and consists of:
fasting hypoglycemia (<50 mg/dL or <2.7 mmol/L)
symptoms of hypoglycemia
immediate relief of symptoms after the administration of intravenous glucose
History and etymology
The triad and also the Whipple pro...
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Gastrinoma
Gastrinomas are the second most common pancreatic endocrine tumor and the most common type in the setting of multiple endocrine neoplasia type I (MEN I).
Epidemiology
Most gastrinomas are sporadic, although some are seen in the setting of multiple endocrine neoplasia type I (MEN I). In general...
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Glucagonoma
Glucagonomas are pancreatic endocrine tumors that secrete glucagon. Most lesions are malignant.
Epidemiology
They are very rare with an incidence of ~0.000005% or less than 1 case per 20 million. Equal incidence in middle-aged men and women.
Accounts for 1% of all the neuroendocrine tumors a...
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Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
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23 Mar 2011
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Von Hippel-Lindau disease
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06 Jul 2015
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Pancreatic mucinous cystadenoma
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07 Aug 2011
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Pancreatic lipoma
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08 Aug 2011
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Emphysematous pancreatitis
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07 Dec 2011
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Pancreatic lipomatosis
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31 Jan 2012
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Annular pancreas
Annular pancreas is a morphological anomaly that results in pancreatic tissue completely or incompletely encircling the duodenum. This condition can cause duodenal obstruction and is therefore important to recognize, as radiologists are frequently the first to make the diagnosis.
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