Focal pancreatic mass: Distinction of pancreatic cancer from chronic pancreatitis using gadolinium-enhanced 3D-gradient-echo MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 313-322

  Kim, Jai K ^a,b   Altun, Ersan ^a   Elias Jr , Jorge ^a,c   Pamuklar, Ertan ^a   Rivero, Hedrick ^a   Semelka, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

3D gradient echo; Chronic pancreatitis; Comparative study; MRI; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KAPPA STATISTICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547864985     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21010     Document Type: Article

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