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To determine whether signal intensity (SI) of the pancreas that was less than that of liver on Tlweighted fat-suppressed (TlFS) magnetic resonance (MR) images could be used to help predict the presence of pancreatic disease. three blinded independent observers graded pancreatic 8 1 relative to liver and/or renal cortex in 89 patients on TlFS images. Results were correlated with patient age and diagnosis. Among the 47 patients with a clinically normal pancreas, pancreatic SI was higher than that of liver in 42 and equal to that of liver in the rest. none of whom had evidence of fatty pancreas. These five patients had a mean age of 71 yean, compared with 56 yeam for patients whose pancreas was more intense than liver (P = .02). Of the 42 patients with a clinically abnormal pancreas, only eight had pancreatic SI higher than that of liver. The positive predictive value for normal pancreas of an SI higher than that of liver was 84% and the positive predictive value for abnormal pancreas of 81 lees than or equal to that of liver w.8 88%. with an overall accuracy of 86%. If normal pancreatic 8 1 is defined as higher than that of liver for patients younger than 60 yeam and as equal to or h

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Author

Corrine B. Winston; Donald G. Mitchell; Eric K. Cutwater; Saundra M. Ehrlich

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1053-1807)

Published

1995

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)