Usefulness of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) for the detection of pancreatic cancer: 4 Case reports

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 81, 2008, Pages 282-285

  Shinya, Satoshi ^a,b   Sasaki, Takamitsu ^a,b   Nakagawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Guiquing, Zhang ^a   Yamamoto, Fumio ^a   Yamashita, Yuichi ^b  

^a Yamamoto Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADC; DWI; MRI; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41549089570     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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