Cost-effectiveness of different diagnostic strategies in patients with nonresectable upper gastrointestinal tract malignancies

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 278-281

  Mortensen, M B ^a   Ainsworth, A P ^a   Langkilde, L K ^a   Scheel Hincke, J D ^a   Pless, T ^a   Hovendal, C ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cost effectiveness; Endoscopic ultrasound; Imaging; Laparoscopic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85047697551     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00021298     Document Type: Article

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