Pancreatic Function Tests

Rational sequence of tests for pancreatic function.

Of 144 patients with suspected pancreatic disease in whom a 75Se-selenomethionine scan was performed, endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERP) was successful in 108 (75%). The final diagnosis is known in 100 patients and has been compared with scan and ERP findings. A normal scan reliably indicated a normal pancreas, but the scan was falsely abnormal in 30%. ERP distinguished between carcino...

Analysis of human pancreatic juice in tests of pancreatic function.

Invited Review Indirect Pancreatic Function Tests in Children

Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland; 4th Department of Pediatrics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece; Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinderund Jugendmedizin des Universitätsklinikums Dresden, Germany; University Children’s Clinic, Tübingen, Germany; Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Erasmus MC-Sophia, Rotterdam, The Ne...

Two indirect tests of exocrine pancreatic function evaluated.

We describe and evaluate two frequently used indirect methods for assessing exocrine pancreatic function: the N-benzoyl-L-tyrosyl-p-aminobenzoic acid test (NBT-PABA) and the pancreolauryl test. In both procedures, the patient is orally administered a substrate that is metabolized into two or more products by pancreatic enzymes. At least one of the reaction products is absorbed from the gut, con...

Measurement of duodenal tryptic activity and 75Se-selenomethionine pancreatic scanning compared as tests of pancreatic function.

The results of a subjective assessment of pancreatic function, based on the appearance of a (75)Se-pancreatic scan, were compared with measurements of the tryptic activity of duodenal aspirates in 16 normal and 38 abnormal subjects. In normals and in abnormals whose scans showed a generalized rather than a localized abnormality there was close agreement between the results of the two sets. In p...