Pictorial review. Cystic lesions of the pancreas

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1375-1388

  Demos, Terrence C ^a   Posniak, Harold V ^a   Harmath, Carla ^a   Olson, Mary C ^a   Aranha, Gerard ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; MUCIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTRINOMA; GIANT CELL TUMOR; GLUCAGON BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCAGONOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULINOMA; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LYMPHOEPITHELIOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ABSCESS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS ANGIOGRAPHY; PANCREAS CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOCYST; RASH; REVIEW; SARCOMA; VISCOSITY; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036884891     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.179.6.1791375     Document Type: Review

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