Endoscopic ultrasound-guided pancreatic fiducial placement: How important is ideal fiducial geometry?

Pancreas

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 692-695

  Majumder, Shounak ^a   Berzin, Tyler M ^b   Mahadevan, Anand ^b   Pawa, Rishi ^b   Ellsmere, James ^b   Sepe, Paul S ^b   Larosa, Salvatore A ^b   Pleskow, Douglas K ^b   Chuttani, Ram ^b   Sawhney, Mandeep S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

EUS; Fiducials; geometry; pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYBERKNIFE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED PANCREATIC FIDUCIAL PLACEMENT; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; IDEAL FIDUCIAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84876885601     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: 15364828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e3182864559     Document Type: Article

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