Is It Worth Looking? Abdominal Imaging After Pancreatic Cancer Resection: A National Study

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-128

  Witkowski, Elan R ^a   Smith, Jillian K ^a   Ragulin Coyne, Elizaveta ^a   Ng, Sing Chau ^a   Shah, Shimul A ^a   Tseng, Jennifer F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; CT; Imaging; Pancreatectomy; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SEER PROGRAM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855354167     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1699-z     Document Type: Article

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