Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas: A review of salient clinical and pathologic features

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-45

  Adams, Amy L ^a   Siegal, Gene P ^a   Jhala, Nirag C ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Neoplastic; Pancreas; Solid and papillary epithelial neoplasm; Solid cystic pseudopapillary; SPT

Indexed keywords

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; PANCREAS SOLID PSEUDOPAPILLARY TUMOR; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATIC ENDOCRINE NEOPLASM; PANCREATOBLATOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; IMMUNOLOGY; PANCREAS CYST; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 39149086153     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e31815e5237     Document Type: Review

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