Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: why not operate?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 821-823

  Drebin, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AWARENESS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CYSTADENOMA; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; MUCINOUS CYSTIC NEOPLASM; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATIC CYSTIC NEOPLASM; PANCREATITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CYSTADENOMA, MUCINOUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62649120515     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.09.023     Document Type: Editorial

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