Hypervascular liver metastasis from hypovascular ductal cell carcinoma of the pancreas

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 227-231

  Noda, Ayako ^a   Inaba, Koji ^a,b   Sakuragi, Sonoko ^a   Moriguchi, Toshihisa ^a   Tanahashi, Toshihito ^a   Komaki, Toshiyuki ^a   Kimura, Hiroyuki ^a   Hirakawa, Koichi ^a   Teramae, Naoki ^a   Fukui, Susumu ^a   Nishimoto, Yoichi ^a   Kagawa, Keizo ^a  

^a Fukuchiyama City Hospital   (Japan)

^b Fukuchiyama City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Stromal cell; Vascularity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035290138     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.227     Document Type: Article

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