Insulinoma: Detection by intraoperative ultrasonography

✍ Scribed by T. C. Brightbill; E. O. Templeton; David Sperling; Laslie P. Mooney

• Book ID: 102329811
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 248 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870200910

✦ Synopsis

Insulinoma is a rare pancreatic islet cell tumor with an annual incidence of 1 in 1.25 million people in the United States.' Many imaging modalities, invasive and noninvasive, have been used for localization of these neoplasms. For many years, pancreatic arteriography has been the localization procedure of choice when the findings from noninvasive imaging such as U1trasonography, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are negative or equivocal. We describe a case of an insulin-