Table 2.
Imaging results (N patients positive) |
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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.