- ►annals.org [PDF] J DeWitt, B Devereaux, M Chriswell, K … - Annals of internal medicine, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians John DeWitt, MD; Benedict Devereaux, MD; Melissa Chriswell, RN; Kathleen
McGreevy, RN; Thomas Howard, MD; Thomas F. Imperiale, MD; Donato Ciaccia, MD;
Kathleen A. Lane, MS; Dean Maglinte, MD; Kenyon Kopecky, MD; Julia LeBlanc, ... Cited by 117 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
A Soriano, A Castells, C Ayuso, JR Ayuso, MT de … - The American journal of gastroenterology, 2004 - nature.com Sixty-two patients with pancreatic cancer were included. Helical CT had the
highest accuracy in assessing extent of primary tumor (73%), locoregional
extension (74%), vascular invasion (83%), distant metastases (88%), tumor ... Cited by 160 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
MS Bhutani, FG Gress, M Giovannini, RA … - Endoscopy, 2004 - thieme-connect.com Background and Study Aims: The purpose of this study was to identify possible
associated factors that may have contributed to failure to detect a pancreatic
neoplasm during endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) examinations by experienced ... Cited by 40 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
JB Klapman, KJ Chang, JG Lee, P Nguyen - The American journal of gastroenterology, 2005 - nature.com We retrospectively reviewed, from our EUS database (between January 1999 and
March 2003), 693 patients who were suspected of having pancreatic cancer and had
EUS examinations. A total of 155 patients were found by EUS to have a ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
FG Gress, RH Hawes, TJ Savides, SO … - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 1999 - Elsevier All patients referred for evaluation and staging of pancreatic cancer were
included in this study. Patients with ampullary and distal common bile duct
lesions were excluded. EUS staging was performed with either radial ... Cited by 187 - Related articles - All 7 versions
GC Hunt, DO Faigel - GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY-BALTIMORE-, 2002 - giconsultants.com Gordon C. Hunt, MD, Douglas O. Faigel, MD Portland, Oregon Pancreatic cancer has
a dismal prognosis, but surgery offers a potential for cure in a minority of
patients with localized disease. An in-depth review by Gudjonsson1 of 4100 ... Cited by 111 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
WM TIERNEY, IR FRANCIS, F ECKHAUSER, … - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2001 - cat.inist.fr Background: The relative accuracy of helical CT and EUS for defining the local
resectability of peripapillary malignancies is undefined. Methods: Fifty-one
patients with a peripapillary malignancy and no metastatic disease were ... Cited by 58 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
B Agarwal, E Abu-Hamda, KL Molke, AM … - American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2004 - medscape.com The incidence of pancreatic cancer in the United States is approximately 28,000
cases a year with 8.5 deaths per 100,000. The majority of patients are between
65 and 79 yr of age. Most pancreatic cancers are greater than 3 cm in ... Cited by 91 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
J DeWitt, BM Devereaux, GA Lehman, S … - Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2006 - Elsevier Background & Aims: It is uncertain whether computed tomography (CT) or
endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is superior for the detection, staging, and
resectability of pancreatic cancer. We therefore performed a systematic ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - All 19 versions
H Aslanian, R Salem, J Lee, D Andersen, M … - The American journal of gastroenterology, 2005 - nature.com 30 of 68 patients were resectable. Among these 30, vascular adherence was
present in 8, including 18% of patients with an intact echoplane between tumor
and adjacent vessels at EUS, 29% of those with loss of echoplane alone, and ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - All 5 versions
