Preoperative Staging and Assessment of Resectability of Pancreatic Cancer

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 230-233

  Warshaw, Andrew L ^a,b   Gu, Zhuo Yun ^b   Wittenberg, Jack ^a   Waltman, Arthur C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREAS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0025186688     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1990.01410140108018     Document Type: Article

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