Alpha-fetoprotein increase in pancreatic endocrine tumor with metastatic liver involvement: Report ot two cases

Gastroenterologie Clinique et Biologique

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 204-206

  Lesur, Gilles ^a   Bergemer, Anne Marie ^a   Turner, Luc ^a   Parlier, Henri ^a   Bernades, Pierre ^b   Dupuy, Pierre ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha fetoprotein; Hepatic metastases; Pancreatic endocrine tumour

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; ADULT; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; LIVER METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR GROWTH;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029941998     PISSN: 03998320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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