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Endoscopy 1984; 16(2): 53-54
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1018532
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Correlation between Endoscopic Retrograde Pancreatogram and Postmortem Pancreatogram

T. Kano, K. Kurimoto, T. Kasugai, K. Tanehiro, H. Sugiura, Y. Ito, T. Yokota, N. Kuno
  • Department of Internal Medicine Aichi Cancer Center Hospital Nagoya, Japan
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17 March 2008 (online)

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Summary

Endoscopic retrograde pancreatogram and postmortem pancreatograms were compared in 6 dogs. The main duct, branches and acini of the pancreas were opacified adequately in that order with infusion of each 1 ml of contrast medium on 4 occasions in endoscopic retrograde pancreatography, and infusion of each 0.1 ml of the contrast medium on 4 occasions in postmortem pancreatography, respectively. The two pancreatograms were almost identical in the appearance of the main duct, branches and acini. The results suggest that a postmortem pancreatogram might be substituted for an endoscopic retrograde pancreatogram in order to investigate the correlation between the pancreatogram and the histological findings of the pancreas.

Key words:

Endoscopic retrograde pancreatogram (ERP) - Postmortem pancreatogram (PMP) - Correlation between ERP and PMP