Pancreatic carcinoma versus chronic focal pancreatitis: Contrast-enhanced power Doppler ultrasonography findings

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 222-227

  Scialpi, M ^a   Midiri, M ^b   Bartolotta, T V ^b   Cazzolla, M P ^a   Rotondo, A ^c   Resta, M C ^a   Lagalla, R ^b   Cardinale, A E ^b  

^a Santissima Annunziata Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic focal pancreatitis; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Pancreatic carcinoma; Power Doppler ultrasonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT T TEST;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 17644416745     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-004-0229-9     Document Type: Article

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