Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: The role of imaging in detection and staging

Critical Reviews in Diagnostic Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-88

  Kuszyk, Brian S ^a   Soyer, Philippe ^b   Bluemke, David A ^a   Fishman, Elliot K ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

angiography; cholangiocarcinoma; cholangiography; helical CT; MR; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031041722     PISSN: 10408371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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