The year of improved tissue acquisition, randomized trials, and endoscopic ultrasound-guided therapy

Endoscopy

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 993-999

  Bhutani, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; BUPIVACAINE; EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER 1; GEMCITABINE; ONCOGEL; PACLITAXEL; TRIAMCINOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADRENAL GLAND; ANALGESIA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACKACHE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHODUODENOSTOMY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEVER; GALLBLADDER DRAINAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LIVER INJURY; LYMPH NODE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEEDLE; NEUROLYSIS; ODYNOPHAGIA; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERFORATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STENT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DRAINAGE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 80155198711     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1291444     Document Type: Article

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