|
KMID : 0359020130460020172
|
|
Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
2013 Volume.46 No. 2 p.172 ~ p.177
|
|
|
Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography for the Pancreas in Korea: A Preliminary Single Center Study
|
|
Lee Tae-Hee
Cho Young-Deok
Jang Jae-Young
Jeong Soung-Won
Cha Sang-Woo
Cho Joo-Young
Choi Hyun-Jong
Moon Jong-Ho
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Background/Aims: Endoscopic ultrasound elastography (EUS-EG) has been widely used for the evaluation of pancreatic cancer in the Western world. To date, there is very little experience with EUS-EG in Korea. We described the results of comparison between normal pancreas and pancreatic cancer in Korea.
Methods: The present study was performed at a tertiary hospital on 35 subjects comprising 20 with normal pancreas (control group) and 15 with pancreatic cancer (disease group). We compared the EUS-EG performance of the two groups.
Results: The pancreas in the control group showed a mean elasticity value of 0.53% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.45 to 0.61). The elasticity value was higher than that previously reported from Western country (0.47%; 95% CI, 0.38 to 0.57). In the disease group, the mean elasticity value of pancreatic lesions was 0.02% (95% CI, 0.01 to 0.02). The mean elasticity value of the disease group was significantly lower than that of the control group (p<0.0001).
Conclusions: EUS-EG could be a highly sensitive diagnostic modality for pancreatic cancer in Korea with little EUS-EG experience. We also provided the reference range of elasticity value of normal pancreas, which might be valuable in the interpretation of pancreatic elasticity data for Korean adults.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Elasticity imaging techniques, Endosonography, Pancreas
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|