Neoplastic endocrine differentiation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in a metastatic lymph node: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1009-1012

  Akatsu, Tomotaka ^a   Kameyama, Kaori ^a   Nogami, Yuki ^a   Kawachi, Shigeyuki ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a   Kitagawa, Yuko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metastatic lymph node; Neoplastic endocrine differentiation; Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENTEROENDOCRINE CELL; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35448955730     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3521-9     Document Type: Article

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