Potential of the Ultrasonic Investigations in Diagnostics of a Portal Hypertension in Patients with the Chronic Pancreatitis
Goal: to determine ultrasonic criteria of exptrahepatic hypertension in patients with chronic pancreatitis. Materials and methods. 94 patients were analyzed: in 61 patients disease was complicated with extrahepatic portal hypertension and 33 patients were without extrahepatic portal hypertension. Results. Analysis of the pancreas and surrounding tissues revealed that in patients with extrahepatic