Solitary malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the pancreas

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 1999, Pages 514-517

  Titus, Amy S ^a   Pinckard, Nannette B ^a   Cook, William J ^a   Vickers, Selwyn M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Pancreatic tumors; Peripheral nerve sheat tumor; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENOSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SPLENECTOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033067644     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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