EUS elastography for pancreatic mass lesions: between image and FNA?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1095-1097

  Gill, Kanwar R S ^a   Wallace, Michael B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DISEASES;

EID: 56349097788     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.05.001     Document Type: Editorial

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