Gastric leiomyosarcoma mimicking a cystic tumor at the pancreatic tail: One case report

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 2468-2470

  Chen, Jiann Hwa ^a   Wang, Hsiu Po ^a   Wu, Ming Shiang ^a   Chou, An Liang ^a   Lin, Chun Che ^a   Shun, Chia Tung ^a   Lee, Po Huang ^a   Lin, Jaw Town ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gastric leiomyosarcoma; Pancreatic cystic tumor

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH SARCOMA; SUBMUCOSA;

AGED; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATIC CYST; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032426704     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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