Endoscopic ultrasonography for pancreatic cystic lesions: let’s enhance it

Marcin Polkowski

doi:10.1055/s-0035-1569561

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2016; 48(01): 4-6
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1569561

Editorial

Endoscopic ultrasonography for pancreatic cystic lesions: let’s enhance it

Marcin Polkowski

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland, and Department of Gastroenterological Oncology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

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