The Spectrum of Cystic Masses of the Pancreas: Imaging Features and Diagnostic Difficulties

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 199-212

  García Figueiras, Roberto ^a   Villalba Martín, Carmen ^a   García Figueiras, Alvaro ^b   Otero Echart, Manuel ^a   Requejo Isidro, Inés ^b   Pazos González, Gerardo ^a   Rosario, Aldo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^b Complexo Hospitalario Juan Canalejo ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; AGE; ALGORITHM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSEUDOCYST; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PANCREATIC CYST;

EID: 34548211905     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2007.01.002     Document Type: Review

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