Endoscopic ultrasound elastography in diagnosing chronic pancreatitis: has the strain ratio found its region of interest?

Pietro Fusaroli; Mohamad A. Eloubeidi

doi:10.1055/s-0033-1344786

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2013; 45(10): 789-791
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1344786

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Endoscopic ultrasound elastography in diagnosing chronic pancreatitis: has the strain ratio found its region of interest?

Pietro Fusaroli

¹Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Castel S. Pietro Terme, Italy

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Mohamad A. Eloubeidi

²Gastroenterology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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