Update on the role of endoscopic ultrasound in chronic pancreatitis

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-122

  Stevens, Tyler ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Celiac plexus blockade; Chronic pancreatitis; Diagnosis; Digital image analysis; Elastography; Endoscopic ultrasound; EUS guided ductal access; MRCP; Pancreatic function testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELIAC PLEXUS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE BLOCK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS FUNCTION TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; CELIAC PLEXUS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PAIN; PANCREATIC FUNCTION TESTS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79955789021     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-010-0167-3     Document Type: Article

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