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VIPoma echocardiography or ultrasound
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Endoscopic ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of VIPoma. Finding on ultrasound suggestive of VIPoma is hypoechoic tumor in the distal part of pancreas.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound
- Endoscopic ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of VIPoma.[1]
- Finding on ultrasound suggestive of VIPoma is hypoechoic tumor in the distal part of pancreas.
- Ultrasound can detect tumor as small as <3mm.
References
References
- ↑ Apodaca-Torrez FR, Triviño M, Lobo EJ, Goldenberg A, Triviño T (2014). “Extra-pancreatic vipoma”. Arq Bras Cir Dig. 27 (3): 222–3. PMID 25184777.
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