Election year fever? Voting on EUS criteria for chronic pancreatitis

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1262-1263

  Park, Walter G ^a   Van Dam, Jacques ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PANCREAS DUCT; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY;

CONSENSUS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC;

EID: 65849394047     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.09.024     Document Type: Editorial

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