Endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-35

  Munroe, Craig A ^a   Fehmi, Syed M Abbas ^a   Savides, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal ultrasound; CT scan; Endoscopic ultrasound; MRI scan; Pancreatic adenocarcinoma; Pancreatic cancer staging; Pancreatic endocrine tumors; Pancreatic metastases; PET scan; Surgical resectability; Vascular invasion

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIMARY PANCREATIC LYMPHOMA; REVIEW; SOLID PSEUDOPAPILLARY TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; ECHOGRAPHY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TUMOR; PROCEDURES;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871552284     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2012.711313     Document Type: Review

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