CT attenuation of unilocular pancreatic cystic lesions to differentiate pseudocysts from mucin-containing cysts

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 384-388

  Chalian, Hamid ^a   Töre, Hüseyin Gürkan ^a   Miller, Frank H ^a   Yaghmai, Vahid ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysts; Densitometry; Pancreas; Pancreatic pseudocyst

Indexed keywords

MUCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; MALE; MUCINOUS CYSTIC NEOPLASM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960253725     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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