Endoscopic ultrasonography and alcoholic patients: Can one predict early pancreatic tissue abnormalities?

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 568-574

  Martins Thuler, Fernanda Prata Borges ^a   da Costa, Patrícia Piauilino ^a   de Paulo, Gustavo Andrade ^a   Shigueo Nakao, Frank ^a   Ardengh, José Celso ^a   Ferrari, Angelo Paulo ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Endosonography; Pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS TUMOR; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ALCOHOLISM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATALASE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27944510702     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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