Interobserver agreement among endosonographers for the diagnosis of neoplastic versus non-neoplastic pancreatic cystic lesions

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-64

  Ahmad, Nuzhat A ^a   Kochman, Michael L ^b   Brensinger, Colleen ^b   Brugge, William R ^b   Faigel, Douglas O ^b   Gress, Frank G ^b   Kimmey, Michael B ^b   Nickl, Nicholas J ^b   Savides, Thomas J ^b   Wallace, Michael B ^b   Wiersema, Maurits J ^b   Ginsberg, Gregory G ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0242358721     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.298     Document Type: Article

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