Implications of fine-needle aspiration in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer

American Surgeon

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 675-680

  Johnson, Dennis E ^a   Pendurthi, Tribhuvan K ^a   Balshem, Andrew M ^a   Ross, Eric ^a   Litwin, Samuel ^a   Eisenberg, Burton L ^a   Hoffman, John P ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; RELIABILITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030818721     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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