Contrast-enhanced endosonographic Doppler spectrum analysis is helpful in discrimination between focal chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer [2]

Pancreas

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 286-288

  Hocke, Michael ^a   Ignee, Andre ^b   Topalidis, Theodor ^c   Stallmach, Andreas ^a   Dietrich, Christoph F ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^c Cytology Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; MICROVASCULATURE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTERIES; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; COLOR; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 34748827411     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e318093f964     Document Type: Letter

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