Intraoperative ultrasound does not improve detection of liver metastases in resectable pancreatic cancer

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-101

  Finlayson, Christina ^a,b   Hoffman, John ^a   Yeung, Raymond ^a   Kessler, Howard ^a   Guttmann, Marlane ^a   Shaer, Andrew ^a   Clair, Michael ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0032007031     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(97)00276-6     Document Type: Article

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