EUS or percutaneous CT/US-guided FNA for suspected pancreatic cancer: when tissue is the issue{A figure is presented}

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 976-978

  Chaya, Charles ^a   Nealon, William H ^a   Bhutani, Manoop S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLOTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646847929     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.12.012     Document Type: Editorial

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