EUS-guided FNA of solid pancreatic masses: A learning curve with 300 consecutive procedures

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 700-708

  Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a,b   Tamhane, Ashutosh ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; NAUSEA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SAFETY; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 18044373429     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(05)00363-9     Document Type: Article

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