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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 1993 Jul;38(7):1318–1328. doi: 10.1007/BF01296084

Table 2.

Results of Localization Studies for Gastrinoma Metastatic to Liver*

Imaging results (N patients positive)
Metastatic gastrinoma in liver (N patients) MR imaging
US CT MR imaging, CT, and US ANGIO
T1 STIR Tl/STIR
Present (18) 15 15 15 9 10 15 11
Absent (25) 4 3 4 1 1 3 0
*

All patients with gastrinoma metastatic to the liver had this determined either at surgery (N = 9) or by percutaneous biopsy or laparoscopy (N = 9) and all patients (N = 25) without gastrinoma in the liver had this confirmed at surgery. Abbreviations: US = ultrasound; CT = computed tomography scan; ANGIO = selective abdominal angiography.