Mucinous cystic neoplasm (mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of low-grade malignant potential) of the pancreas: A clinicopathologic study of 130 cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-16

  Thompson, Lester D R ^a   Becker, Robert C ^a   Przygodzki, Ronald M ^a   Adair, Carol F ^a   Heffess, Clara S ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA ploidy; Histochemistry; Immunohistochemistry; K ras oncogene; Mucinous cysladenocarcinoma Prognostic markers; Mucinous cystadenoma; Mucinous cystic neoplasms; Pancreas; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SIALOMUCIN; VIMENTIN;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOGENE K RAS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PROGNOSIS; STROMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RAS PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032955877     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199901000-00001     Document Type: Article

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