Feasibility of tissue elastography using transcutaneous ultrasonography for the diagnosis of pancreatic diseases

Pancreas

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-22

  Uchida, Hiroki ^a   Hirooka, Yoshiki ^b,c   Itoh, Akihiro ^a   Kawashima, Hiroki ^a   Hara, Kazuo ^a   Nonogaki, Koji ^a   Kasugai, Toshifumi ^a   Ohno, Eizaburo ^a   Ohmiya, Naoki ^a   Niwa, Yasumasa ^a   Katano, Yoshiaki ^a   Ishigami, Masatoshi ^a   Goto, Hidemi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic pancreatitis; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic endocrine tumor; Real time tissue elastography; Tissue characterization; Transacutaneous ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ULTRASONOGRAPHY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 59649086965     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e318184db78     Document Type: Article

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