The pancreas and respiration: Oblivious to the obvious!

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 578-583

  Bhasin, Deepak Kumar ^a,b   Rana, Surinder Singh ^a   Chandail, Vijant Singh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Biopsy, needle; Cholangiopancreatography, endoscopic retrograde; Education, medical; Endosonography; Lithotripsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pancreatic neoplasms; Pancreatitis; Tomography, x ray computed; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAPHRAGM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS STONE; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEUM;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PANCREAS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 33751105491     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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