Long-term survival of pancreatic cancer patient diagnosed by positive telomerase activity of pancreatic juice [3]

Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 962-963

  Murakami, Yoshiaki ^a   Uemura, Kenichiro ^a   Sasaki, Tamito ^a   Hayashidani, Yasuo ^a   Sudo, Takeshi ^a   Sueda, Taijiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS JUICE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATIC JUICE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 27744493828     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2005.07.031     Document Type: Letter

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