New frontiers in therapeutic EUS: Dreams, style exercises or actual possibilities

Minerva Medica

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 287-298

  Buchner, A M ^a   Wallace, M B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Gastrointestinal diseases; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CELIAC PLEXUS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; THORACOTOMY;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DISEASES;

EID: 36749074431     PISSN: 00264806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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