Blue clouds and green clouds: Virtual biopsy via EUS elastography?

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 416-417

  Fritscher Ravens, A ^a  

^a HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CANCER; EDITORIAL; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOUCH;

BIOPSY; ELASTICITY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646161718     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-925277     Document Type: Editorial

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