Assessment of Pancreatic Hardness-Surgeon versus Durometer

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-60

  Belyaev, Orlin ^a   Herden, Heinz ^a   Meier, Juris J ^a   Muller, Christophe A ^a   Seelig, Matthias H ^a   Herzog, Torsten ^a   Tannapfel, Andrea ^b   Schmidt, Wolfgang E ^a   Uhl, Waldemar ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

durometry; fibrosis; hardness; pancreatic leakage; radiodensity; soft pancreas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUROMETRY; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALPATION; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 71649111438     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.08.022     Document Type: Article

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