EUS elastography combined with the strain ratio of tissue elasticity for diagnosis of solid pancreatic masses

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 843-853

  Itokawa, Fumihide ^a   Itoi, Takao ^a   Sofuni, Atsushi ^a   Kurihara, Toshio ^a   Tsuchiya, Takayoshi ^a   Ishii, Kentaro ^a   Tsuji, Shujiro ^a   Ikeuchi, Nobuhito ^a   Umeda, Junko ^a   Tanaka, Reina ^a   Yokoyama, Naoyuki ^a   Moriyasu, Fuminori ^a   Kasuya, Kazuhiko ^a   Nagao, Toshitaka ^a   Kamisawa, Terumi ^b   Tsuchida, Akihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastography; Endoscopic ultrasound; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID TUMOR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85028096462     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-011-0399-5     Document Type: Article

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