Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 519-526 , March 2010

Multicenter comparison of the interobserver agreement of standard EUS scoring and Rosemont classification scoring for diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis

Received 13 July 2009 ,Accepted 14 October 2009.

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 DISCLOSURE: T. Stevens has received research support from Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Marietta, GA, and ChiRhoClin, Inc., Burtonsville, MD. J. Conway is a consultant to and has received research support from Olympus America, Centerville, PA. J. Dewitt is a consultant to Olympus America and has initiated research support from Cook Endoscopy, Winston-Salem, NC, and RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc, Pittsburgh, PA. M. Kahaleh has received research support from Olympus America, Boston Scientific, Nattick, MA, ConMed, Utica, NY, Alveolus, Charlotte, NC, and Cook Endoscopy. J. Vargo is a consultant to and has received research support from Olympus America and Ethicon Endosurgery, Cincinnati, OH. G. Mishra is a consultant to Cook Endoscopy. The other authors have no disclosures relevant to this publication.

 If you would like to chat with an author of this article, you may contact Dr. Stevens at stevent@ccf.org.

PII: S0016-5107(09)02697-2

doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.10.043

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 519-526 , March 2010

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