Case 35-2003: A 75-Year-Old Man with a Cystic Lesion of the Pancreas

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 1954-1961

  Warshaw, Andrew L ^a   Brugge, William R ^a   Lewandrowski, Kent B ^a   Pitman, Martha B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXAZOSIN; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE;

AGED; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COLLOID CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; VATER PAPILLA;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGED; AMPULLA OF VATER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242574704     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030027     Document Type: Review

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