Laparoscopy predicts metastatic disease and spares laparotomy in selected patients with pancreatic nonfunctioning islet cell tumors

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-253

  Hochwald, S N ^a   Weiser, M R ^a   Colleoni, R ^a   Brennan, M F ^a   Conlon, K C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Pancreatic islet cell tumors; Resectability

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA, ISLET CELL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035071657     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/aso.2001.8.3.249     Document Type: Article

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