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A pilot study of radiologic measures of abdominal adiposity: weighty contributors to early pancreatic carcinogenesis worth evaluating?

OBJECTIVE: Intra-abdominal fat is a risk factor for pancreatic cancer (PC), but little is known about its contribution to PC precursors known as intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs). Our goal was to evaluate quantitative radiologic measures of abdominal/visceral obesity as possible diagn...

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Autores principales: Permuth, Jennifer B., Choi, Jung W., Chen, Dung-Tsa, Jiang, Kun, DeNicola, Gina, Li, Jian-Nong, Coppola, Domenico, Centeno, Barbara A., Magliocco, Anthony, Balagurunathan, Yoganand, Merchant, Nipun, Trevino, Jose G., Jeong, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chinese Anti-Cancer Association 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5365183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28443205
http://dx.doi.org/10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2017.0006