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. 1973 May;14(5):383–389. doi: 10.1136/gut.14.5.383

An evaluation of 75Se Selenomethionine scanning as a test of pancreatic function compared with the secretin-pancreozymin test

Joan Braganza, Mair Critchley, H T Howat, H J Testa, H B Torrance
PMCID: PMC1412691  PMID: 4716507

Abstract

The uptake of 75Se Selenomethionine by the pancreas has been evaluated in 102 patients and compared with the secretin-pancreozymin test of pancreatic function. In groups of patients with chronic pancreatitis and cancer of the pancreas abnormal scans closely parallel the diminished exocrine secretion, especially bicarbonate output, following a submaximal dose of secretin. Thirty per cent of the group with no pancreatic abnormality have abnormal scans, though the secretinpancreozymin test is normal. Though a normal scan excludes the presence of chronic pancreatitis and cancer of the pancreas with a probability greater than 90%, an abnormal scan is found so frequently in normal subjects that it does not provide a reliable index of impaired pancreatic function.

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