EUS-guided FNA: The training is moving

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-73

  Chang, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0347634583     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)02509-4     Document Type: Editorial

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