Gray-Scale Echography of the Pancreas

Abstract

One hundred ultrasonograms of patients without pancreatic disease were reviewed. The head, neck, and body of the pancreas were measured in the longitudinal and transverse/oblique planes. The mean thickness of the pancreatic head was 2.01±0.39 cm (standard deviation) in the longitudinal plane and 2.08±0.40 cm in the transverse/oblique plane. The same respective measurements were 1.18±0.36 cm and 1.16±0.29 cm for the body and 1.00±0.30 cm and 0.95±0.26 cm for the neck. The anatomy and consistency of the normal and diseased pancreas are discussed.