Pancreatic duct stricture length at ERCP predicts tumor size and pathological stage of pancreatic cancer

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 964-967

  Shah, Samir A ^a   Movson, Jonathan ^a   Ransil, Bernard J ^a   Waxman, Irving ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030976435     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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