Contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS with novel ultrasonographic contrast (Sonazoid) in the preoperative T-staging for pancreaticobiliary malignancies

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 732-738

  Imazu, Hiroo ^a   Uchiyama, Yujiro ^a   Matsunaga, Kazuhiro ^a   Ikeda, Kei Ichi ^a   Kakutani, Hiroshi ^a   Sasaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Sumiyama, Kazuki ^a   Ang, Tiing Leong ^b   Omar, Salem ^c   Tajiri, Hisao ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced harmonic EUS; Pancreaticobiliary malignancies; T staging

Indexed keywords

PERFLUBUTANE;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCED HARMONIC IMAGING ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IRON; NEOPLASM STAGING; OXIDES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77952209738     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521003690269     Document Type: Article

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