Pressed for an answer: has elastography finally come to EUS?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 301-303

  Jacobson, Brian C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; BREATHING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CIRCULATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ELASTICITY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS;

EID: 34447523590     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.02.013     Document Type: Editorial

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