Differentiation of a pancreatic metastasis of a renal cell carcinoma from a primary pancreatic carcinoma by echo-enhanced power doppler sonography

Pancreatology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 349-351

  Flath, Bernd ^a   Rickes, S ^a   Schweigert, M ^a   Lochs, H ^a   Possinger, K ^a   Wermke, W ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echo enhanced power Doppler sonography; Pancreatic carcinoma, differential diagnosis; Pancreatic metastasis, renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON; SHU 508;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEPHRECTOMY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0042674054     PISSN: 14243903     EISSN: 14243911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071775     Document Type: Article

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