Pancreatic schwannoma: Report of two cases and review of the literature

Pancreas

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-105

  Feldman, Liane ^a   Philpotts, Liane E ^a   Reinhold, Caroline ^a   Duguid, William P ^a   Rosenberg, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case report; Literature review; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pancreatic surgery; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030666680     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-199707000-00014     Document Type: Article

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