Diffusion-weighted MRI in the characterization of cystic pancreatic lesions: Usefulness of ADC values

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1447-1455

  Boraschi, Piero ^a   Donati, Francescamaria ^a   Gigoni, Roberto ^a   Salemi, Simonetta ^a   Bartolozzi, Carlo ^b   Falaschi, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cystic lesions, pancreas; Diffusion weighted MR imaging; Pancreas, MR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREATH HOLDING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS SURGERY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78449250936     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.031     Document Type: Article

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