The various imaging aspects of chronic pancreatitis

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-88

  Graziani, Rossella ^a   Tapparelli, Margherita ^a   Malagò, Roberto ^a   Girardi, Veronica ^a   Frulloni, Luca ^a   Cavallini, Giorgio ^a   Mucelli, Roberto Pozzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholangiopancreatography, endoscopic retrograde; Cholangiopancreatography, magnetic resonance; Diagnosis, differential; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pancreatitis; Pancreatitis, alcoholic; Tomography, spiral computed; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; TRYPSINOGEN;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUODENUM DISEASE; DYSTROPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PAPILLOMA; RELAPSE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 27644501157     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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