Researchers studied if CT volumetry could effectively evaluate endocrine parameters in the pancreas. A sample of patients who received CT for pancreatic disease showed a correlation of diabetic status and postoperative pancreatic CT parameters one year after pancreatectomy.
The researchers suggest that CT may be able to predict postoperative diabetic outcome.
Read the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery abstract on computed tomography.
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