Insulinoma CT

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Amandeep Singh M.D.[2]

Overview

CT scan is currently accepted as the first line of investigation for diagnosing insulinoma. Currently, with the advances in technology, the sensitivity has risen to 80% and 94.4% for helical CT scan with dual-phase multi-detector CT scan. Insulinoma is hypervascular and thus CT shows greater enhancement (hyper-attenuation) than rest of the pancreatic parenchyma. Cystic and nodular masses with calcification indicates malignant insulinoma. Metastasis can be detected by CT scan.

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Sensitivity of CT scan for diagnosing insulinoma was 33-64%. With the recent advances in technology and knowledge of rapid contrast-enhanced CT scan in early phase has increased the sentivity to 80%. Most insulinomas are smaller, <1.3 cm (50%) and many of these are non-contour forming. Therefore, CT scan is less effective in diagnosing them than MRI.[1][2][3]

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  • Abdominal Contrast enhanced CT (CECT) scan may be helpful in the diagnosis of insulinoma. Findings on CT scan suggestive of insulinoma include:[1]
    • Greater degree of enhancement (hyper-attenuation) than parenchyma of the rest of pancreas (as its hypervascular) during the vascular phases of the contrast.
    • Atypically can appear hypovascular and hypodense lesions after the administration of contrast, as compared to hyperdense lesions before the administration; cystic masses, and calcified masses (in malignant lesions when they are nodular and discrete).[2][3]
  • CT quality have been improved with technology advances with using dual-phase thin-section multi-detector CT having senstivity of 94.4% as compared to 57% for dual-phase multi-detector without thin sections and 28.6% with sequential CT. [2][4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Okabayashi T, Shima Y, Sumiyoshi T, Kozuki A, Ito S, Ogawa Y, Kobayashi M, Hanazaki K (2013). "Diagnosis and management of insulinoma". World J. Gastroenterol. 19 (6): 829–37. doi:10.3748/wjg.v19.i6.829. PMC 3574879. PMID 23430217.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 McAuley G, Delaney H, Colville J, Lyburn I, Worsley D, Govender P; et al. (2005). "Multimodality preoperative imaging of pancreatic insulinomas". Clin Radiol. 60 (10): 1039–50. doi:10.1016/j.crad.2005.06.005. PMID 16179163.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Noone TC, Hosey J, Firat Z, Semelka RC (2005). "Imaging and localization of islet-cell tumours of the pancreas on CT and MRI". Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 19 (2): 195–211. doi:10.1016/j.beem.2004.11.013. PMID 15763695.
  4. Tucker ON, Crotty PL, Conlon KC (2006). "The management of insulinoma". Br J Surg. 93 (3): 264–75. doi:10.1002/bjs.5280. PMID 16498592.

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