Differential diagnosis between chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer: A prospective study of 156 patients

Medicina

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 154-162

  Brimiene, Vilma ^a   Brimas, Gintautas ^a   Strupas, Kestutis ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Chronic pancreatitis; Diagnosis; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80053307841     PISSN: 00257729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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