Signet-ring cell carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 793-796

  Fang, Chia Lang ^a,b   Chu, Jan Show ^a,b   Hsieh, Mao Chih ^a   Wu, Ming Shun ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ampulla of Vater; Case reports; Common bile duct neoplasms; Duodenopancreatectomy; Signet ring cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMMON BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HEPATIC DUCT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT CANCER; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STOMACH LESION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VATER PAPILLA; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA;

AMPULLA OF VATER; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY;

EID: 11344257228     PISSN: 09296646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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