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Elastography of the pancreas is a new useful technique that completes and improves the accuracy of transcutaneous or endoscopic pancreatic ultrasound study, giving important information on tissue under examination.

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    Valentina Ciaravino, Giulia Tremolada, Alessandro Sarno, Giorgia Tedesco, Nicolò Cardobi, Riccardo De Robertis & Mirko D’Onofrio

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    Laura Bernardoni & Stefano Francesco Crino

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Ciaravino, V. et al. (2017). Pancreas. In: Clevert, DA., D'Onofrio, M., Quaia, E. (eds) Atlas of Elastosonography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44201-3_3

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