Diagnostic workup of patients with suspected pancreatic carcinoma: The University of California-Los Angeles approach

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1780-1786

  Gloor, Beat ^a,b   Todd, Karen E ^a,b   Reber, Howard A ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; helical computed tomography; laparoscopy; pancreatic carcinoma; staging

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030910466     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970501)79:9<1780::AID-CNCR21>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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