Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: Variability of diffusion-weighted MR imaging findings

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 732-740

  Fukukura, Yoshihiko ^a   Takumi, Koji ^a   Kamimura, Kiyohisa ^a   Shindo, Toshikazu ^a   Kumagae, Yuichi ^a   Tateyama, Akihiro ^a   Nakajo, Masayuki ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862501722     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111222     Document Type: Article

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