Learning from case reports: Diagnostic issues in an epidemiologic study of pancreatic cancer

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1215-1221

  Soler, Maria ^a   Porta, Miquel ^a   Malats, Núria ^a   Guarner, Luisa ^b   Costafreda, Sergi ^a   Gubern, Josep M ^c   García Olivares, Esteban ^d   Andreu, Montserrat ^e   Real, Francisco X ^a  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE MATARÓ   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biliary tract diseases; Case reports; Case study; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Etiology; Misclassification bias; Pancreatic diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN;

EID: 0032415820     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00130-9     Document Type: Article

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