Study of the pancreas in diabetic patients using ultrasound

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to determine the echo texture changes in the pancreas and to evaluate changes in the size of the head and the body of the pancreas in both types of diabetic patientsby measuring the anteroposteroir diameter of head and body of the pancreas. The study has been carried out inAlalim clinic and ultrasound department of college of medical radiological science. It has been done on 25 patients with type II diabetes and 19 patients with type I diabetes,compared with 22 normal controls. General electric and mindary forgeneral purpose ultrasound machines with 3.5 MHzcurve linear probe are used. The data was analyzed by using SPSS. The result concluded that the difference between the mean size of the pancreas head of normal control data and the diabetic patients type I with the mean average of 22.4 mm and 15.2 mm respectively, was significant at p = 0.05 using t-test ,witht = 8.3 and p<.001. And body of pancreas in type I with mean average of 12.7mm and normal control with mean average of 8.7mm, was significant at p=0.05 using t-test with t=12.3 and p< .001.Concerningdiabetes type II, the head of the pancreas scored mean equals 21.4 mm and the normal control 22.4 mm. This difference was insignificant at p=0.05 using t-test with t=1.8 and p< 0.08. The body of the pancreas showed an average size of 10.5 mm and the normal control 12.7 mm.This difference was significant at p=0.05 using t-test with t=3.3 and p<.003.The echogenicity of pancreas is greater in type II more than type I.