Nonfunctioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors presenting as pancreatitis: Report of four cases

Pancreas

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 223-231

  Ford Simpson, W ^a   Adams, David B ^a   Metcalf, John S ^a   Anderson, Marion C ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Chronic pancreatitis; Nonfunctioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

Indexed keywords

CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOCARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0023708171     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: 15364828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-198804000-00019     Document Type: Article

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