Carcinoma of pancreatic body and tail: Are there improvements in diagnosis and treatment modalities over the past decade?

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 421-427

  Falconi, Massimo ^a   Mantovani, W ^a   Bettini, R ^a   Talamini, G ^a   Bassi, C ^a   Cascinu, S ^b   Oliani, C ^a   Pederzoli, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

5 FU; Chemotherapy; Gemcitabine; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; MORTALITY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PANCREAS TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0142062018     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(03)00158-0     Document Type: Article

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