Local staging of pancreatic carcinoma with multi-detector row CT: Use of curved planar reformations - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 759-765

  Prokesch, Rupert W ^a,d   Chow, Lawrence C ^a   Beaulia, Christopher F ^a   Nino Murcia, Matilde ^a,c   Mindelzun, Robert E ^a   Bammer, Roland ^a   Huang, Jing ^b   Jeffrey Jr , R Brooke ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Veterans Administration   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), multidetector row; Images, analysis; Pancreas, CT; Pancreas, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY;

EID: 0036891970     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2253010886     Document Type: Article

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