Adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas: Determination of surgical unresectability with thin-section pancreatic-phase helical CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1513-1518

  O'Malley, Martin E ^a,b   Boland, Giles W L ^a   Wood, Bradford J ^a   Fernandez Del Castillo, Carlos ^a   Warshaw, Andrew L ^a   Mueller, Peter R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR TUMOR;

EID: 0345504893     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.173.6.10584794     Document Type: Article

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