Pancreatic Angiography, with Application of Subselective Angiography of the Celiac or Superior Mesenteric Artery to the Diagnosis of Carcinoma of the Pancreas

THE diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasms is difficult because of the inaccessibility of the organ to the usual means of examination. Conventional methods of diagnostic, radiography are helpful in only a few cases, usually restricted to those with large tumors that impinge upon or distort adjacent viscera. The x-ray technic of angiographic visualization of blood vessels bordering and situated within the pancreas offers the means of establishing the presence of a tumor of this organ. Angiographic demonstration of the pancreatic vasculature by aortography alone is of no significant value because the finer pancreatic vessels are poorly opacified and obscured by the . . .