Clinical Radiology
Volume 61, Issue 9 , Pages 776-783 , September 2006

Intraductal papillary mucinous tumour of the pancreas: differentiation of malignancy and benignancy by CT

  • S.S.-h. Chiu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science
    • Present address: Department of Radiology, Kwong Wah Hospital, 25 Waterloo Road, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
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  • J.H. Lim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science
    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: J.H. Lim, Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50 Ilwon-dong, Kangnam-ku, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel.: +82 2 3410 2501; fax: +82 2 3410 2559.
    • ,
  • W.J. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science
    • ,
  • K.T. Chang

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Pathology
    • ,
  • D.K. Oh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science
    • ,
  • K.T. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Internal Medicine
    • ,
  • J.K. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Internal Medicine
    • ,
  • S.H. Choi

      Affiliations

    • Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Kangnam-ku, Seoul, Korea

Received 15 February 2006 ,Revised 7 April 2006 ,Accepted 24 April 2006.

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PII: S0009-9260(06)00139-5

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.04.008

Clinical Radiology
Volume 61, Issue 9 , Pages 776-783 , September 2006

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