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Pancreatic Elastase: Enzyme Role and Reason for Test
A pancreatic elastase test, also known as a stool elastase, FE-1, or fecal elastase test, measures how much elastase is in your poop. Elastase is an enzyme produced by the pancreas during the ...
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Types of Poop and What Your Stool Can Tell You About Your Health
Giardia also causes stools that float, as does IBS, IBD, Celiac. Another sign of pancreatic insufficiency is a stool that ...
How a cheap blood test may soon detect one of the deadliest cancers
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) have developed a blood test called PAC-MANN, to detect pancreatic ...
The Nassau Guardian6d
Pancreatic cancer: a silent killer
Due to a lack of noticeable symptoms in its early stages and the pancreas’ obscure location behind other organs in the ...
Baylor College of Medicine4y
Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas
Five to ten percent of the patients have steatorrhea (fat in stool), diabetes, and weight loss secondary to pancreatic insufficiency. Some IPMNs primarily involve the main pancreatic duct, while ...
Medscape17y
A Case of Pancreatic Lymphoma
His stool was guaiac positive ... 5-cm well-defined mass encasing the celiac axis and involving the head of the pancreas. Multiple enlarged lymph nodes were present adjacent to the mass (Figure ...