Endoscopic ultrasound elastography: The first step towards virtual biopsy? Preliminary results in 49 patients

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 344-348

  Giovannini, M ^a   Hookey, L C ^a   Bories, E ^a   Pesenti, C ^a   Monges, G ^a   Delpero, J R ^a  

^a INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CELIAC ARTERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSULINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENITIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS TUMOR; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR BIOPSY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646133208     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-925158     Document Type: Article

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