Telomerase activity in pancreatic juice differentiates ductal carcinoma from adenoma and pancreatitis

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 12 I, 1997, Pages 2479-2483

  Suehara, Nobuhiro ^a   Mizumoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Tanaka, Masao ^a   Niiyama, Hideaki ^a   Yokohata, Kazunori ^a   Tominaga, Yohei ^a   Shimura, Hideo ^a   Muta, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hamasaki, Naotaka ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS JUICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC JUICE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0031418170     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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