Update on endoscopic ultrasound: How much for imaging, needling, or therapy?

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1416-1424

  Papanikolaou, Ioannis S ^a   Fockens, Paul ^b   Hawes, Robert ^c   Rösch, Thomas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRADYCARDIA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST DRAINAGE; CYST INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 56749170876     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520701737252     Document Type: Review

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