Small peripancreatic veins: Improved assessment in pancreatic cancer patients using thin-section pancreatic phase helical CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 377-383

  Vedantham, Suresh ^a   Lu, David S K ^a   Reber, Howard A ^a   Kadell, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS BLOOD FLOW; PANCREAS SCINTISCANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031906823     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.170.2.9456949     Document Type: Article

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