Combined contrast-enhanced power Doppler and real-time sonoelastography performed during EUS, used in the differential diagnosis of focal pancreatic masses (with videos)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 739-747

  Sftoiu, Adrian ^a   Iordache, Sevastia ^a   Gheonea, Dan Ionu ^a   Popescu, Carmen ^b   Malo, Anca ^c   Gorunescu, Florin ^a   Ciurea, Tudorel ^a   Iordache, Alexandru ^a   Popescu, Gabriel Lucian ^a   Manea, Ctlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^b Cytology Laboratory   (Romania)

^c Emergency County Clinical Hospital   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CHRONIC PSEUDOTUMORAL PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATIC METASTASIS; PARENCHYMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOTUMOR; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SONOELASTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 77957593472     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.02.056     Document Type: Article

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