Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas: Imaging and Management

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 467-486

  Dewhurst, Catherine E ^a   Mortele, Koenraad J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystic lesions; MR imaging; Mucinous; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYSTIC ENDOCRINE TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHOEPITHELIAL CYST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MUCINOUS CYSTIC TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS METASTASIS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATIC CYSTIC TERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROUS MICROCYSTIC ADENOMA; SOLID PSEUDOPAPILLARY TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; CYSTADENOMA, SEROUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, CYSTIC, MUCINOUS, AND SEROUS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860576781     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2012.03.001     Document Type: Review

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