Endoscopic ultrasound: A review of current diagnostic and therapeutic applications

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 1016, 2010, Pages 346-353

  Godfrey, Edmund M ^a   Rushbrook, Simon M ^b   Carrol, Nicholas R ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILE DUCT CYST; BILE DUCT TUMOR; BILIARY MICROLITHIASIS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COELIAC PLEXUS NEUROLYSIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST FLUID; CYSTOSTOMY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROCYSTOSTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NERVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TUMOR VOLUME;

CELIAC PLEXUS; DRAINAGE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NERVE BLOCK; PANCREATIC DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77953716777     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2009.096065     Document Type: Review

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