K-ras point mutation in the nerve plexuses around the superior mesenteric artery in resectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head: Distribution pattern and related factors

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1450-1455

  Ohigashi, Hiroaki ^a,b   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a   Sasahi, Yo ^a   Yamada, Terumasa ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Imaoka, Shingi ^a   Kasugai, Tsutomu ^a   Ishiguro, Shingo ^a   Ueda, Kazuki ^a   Miyoshi, Yasuo ^a   Nakamura, Yusuke ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NERVE PLEXUS; ONCOGENE K RAS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY;

EID: 17544374835     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.135.12.1450     Document Type: Article

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