Pancreatico-biliary endoscopic ultrasound: A systematic review of the levels of evidence, performance and outcomes

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 4243-4256

  Fusaroli, Pietro ^a   Kypraios, Dimitrios ^b   Caletti, Giancarlo ^a   Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Agios Savvas Anticancer Hospital   (Greece)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Bile duct stones; Chronic pancreatitis; Contrast harmonic endoscopic ultrasound; Duct drainage; Endoscopic ultrasound; Fine needle aspiration; Pancreatic cysts; Pancreatic tumors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT STONE; CANCER INVASION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84867733140     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i32.4243     Document Type: Article

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