Abstract
For pancreatic insulinomas, the treatment of choice is surgical excison, which when
successful is curative. Intraoperative palpation combined with ultrasonography theoretically
depict almost all tumors, however the accuracy of palpation is improved by the preoperative
localization. All recent advances in imaging have improved the likelihood for curative
surgical resection. Our purpose is to demonstratethe characteristics of all modalitites,
which may be used in the preoperative localization algorithm.
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Accepted:
February 28,
2001
Received:
January 15,
2001
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