Clinically silent pancreatic glucagonomas discovered in resected specimens by immunohistochemistry

Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 632-633

  Hashimoto, Masaji ^a   Watanabe, Goro ^a   Nakamura, Toyohide ^a   Kajiyama, Yoshiaki ^a   Tsurumaru, Masahiko ^a  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLUCAGONOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030886454     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90138-0     Document Type: Article

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