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The diagnostic criteria for chronic pancreatitis has changed, Ultrasonography for this purpose has also changed somewhat. The findings which follow were determined in relationship to chronic pancreatitis : 1) pancreatic stones as a found in definitive chronic pancreatitis, and, 2) a hyperechoic noudle in the pancreas, 3) the rough, dilated pancreatic duct or deformity of the pancreas with a rough surface as in probable chronic pancreatitis, and pancreatic cysts, 4) pancreatic tumors or swelling, or a smoothly dilated pancreatic duct as in suspected chronic pancreatitis. In the present study, we explained these fingings, showing the photographies of the pancreas of patients with chronic pancreatitis. |