Local staging of pancreatic cancer: Criteria for unresectability of major vessels as revealed by pancreatic-phase, thin-section helical CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1439-1443

  Lu, David S K ^a,b   Reber, Howard A ^a   Krasny, Robert M ^a   Kadell, Barbara M ^a   Sayre, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0030944668     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.168.6.9168704     Document Type: Article

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