Abstract
In order to improve the visualization of the pancreatic arteries, selective celiac or superior mesenteric arteriographic examinations were performed in sixteen patients by means of using injection of contrast material distal to occlusion of celiac trunk or SMA with a balloon-tipped catheter. With use of these techniques, precise information of the pancreatic arteries, comparable to that of superselective pancreatic arteriography, were obtained in sixty percent of all the pancreatic arteries.
In addition, left gastric artery, which sometimes cannot be separated from the pancre-atic arteries on X-ray films, was occluded in about half of the cases, so that fine visuali-zation of the pancreatic arteries was obtained.
These techniques were confirmed to be safe and simple, so they may provide fine visualization of the pancreatic arteries, even when superselective pancreatic arteriography cannot be done
