Quantitative analysis of endosonographic parenchymal echogenicity in patients with chronic pancreatitis

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1199-1205

  Irisawa, Atsushi ^a,b   Mishra, Girish ^a   Hernandez, Lyndon V ^a   Bhutani, Manoop S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pancreatitis; Endoscopic ultrasound; Endosonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 5644254691     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2004.03468.x     Document Type: Article

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