VIPoma echocardiography or ultrasound
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Madhu Sigdel M.B.B.S.[2]Parminder Dhingra, M.D. [3] Homa Najafi, M.D.[4]
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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