Primary paraganglioma of the head of pancreas: Contribution of combinatorial image analyses to the diagnosis of disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1195-1196

  Ohkawara, Tatsuya ^a,b   Naruse, Hirohito ^b   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a   Asaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Wakkanai City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pancreas; Paraganglioma

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S 100;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PANCREAS TUMOR; PARAGANGLIOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PANCREAS RESECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PARAGANGLIOMA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644844583     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.1195     Document Type: Article

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