Pathologic splenic rupture: An unusual presentation of pancreatic cancer

Pancreas

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-274

  Yettimis, Euripides ^a   Trompetas, Vasilis ^a,b   Varsamidakis, Nicholas ^a   Courcoutsakis, Nikos ^a   Polymeropoulos, Vasilis ^a   Kalokairinos, Emmanuel ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENIC RUPTURE;

EID: 0141594684     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-200310000-00015     Document Type: Article

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