Diagnosis of an aneurysm masquerading as a pancreatic-cyst lesion at EUS

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 721-725

  Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a   Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ARTERY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PANCREAS CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; SPLEEN ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC CYST;

EID: 33947303848     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.08.037     Document Type: Article

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