Advances in imaging and ultrasound endoscopic diagnosis of fatty pancreas
Domestic and foreign scholars pay more and more attention to the fatty pancreas(pancreatic fat infiltra-tion)in recent years,some studies have confirmed that the fatty pancreas is closely related to type 2 diabetes,fatty liver,and pancreatic cancer.Therefore,early diagnosis of fatty pancreas and intervention will play a positive role in these dis-eases.A biopsy is an invasive examination and can not be carried out routinely in the clinic.At present,the most com-mon application for diagnosing fatty pancreas in clinical practice is imaging examination,and some scholars have pro-posed that ultrasound endoscopy is the best way to observe the pancreas.This paper summarized the research progress of imaging and endoscopic ultrasonography in the clinical diagnosis of the fatty pancreas.