Pancreatic schwannoma. A case report and review of the literature

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 520-526

  Bui, Trung D ^a,b   Nguyen, Tien ^a   Huerta, Sergio ^a   Gu, Mai ^a   Hsiang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurilemmoma; Pancreas; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEURILEMOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NAUSEA; NEURILEMMOMA; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25844495771     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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