CT imaging features of acinar cell carcinoma and its hepatic metastases

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1383-1390

  Bhosale, P ^a   Balachandran, A ^a   Wang, H ^b   Wei, W ^a   Hwang, R F ^a   Fleming, J B ^a   Varadhachary, G ^a   Charnsangavej, C ^a   Tamm, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinar cancer; CT; Imaging; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; IOVERSOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; METASTASIS; NECROSIS; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT STENOSIS; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE GROWTH; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84890123260     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-012-9970-7     Document Type: Article

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