1. Diagnostic Ascertainment of Suspicious Pancreatic Mass: A Threshold Analysis 
Amnon Sonnenberg, Sarah A. Rodriguez, Douglas O. Faigel 
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 
Volume 6, Issue 10, Pages (October 2008)
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2. Figure 1
Decision tree of whether to perform a pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure) in patients with a suspicious pancreatic lesion. LE, life expectancy; LEc, life expectancy with cancer; LEw, life expectancy with cancer after Whipple; Sw, survival after Whipple; Qw, quality of life after Whipple; Qc, quality of life with cancer; Cw, Whipple cost; Cy, life-year cost.
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3. Figure 2
Influence of surgery cost on the threshold probability of pancreatic cancer.
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4. Figure 3
Influence of quality of life after surgery and life expectancy without pancreatic cancer on the threshold probability.
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5. Figure 4
Joint influence of life expectancy without pancreatic cancer and quality of life after surgery on the threshold probability. The threshold probability is represented by the height of the surface plane in the 3-dimensional frame.
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