Pancreatic adenocarcinoma and its mimickers: traps in diagnosis

Diagnostic Histopathology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 275-283

  Liang, Haohai ^a,b,c   Basturk, Olca ^a,b,c   Bandyopadhyay, Sudeshna ^a,b,c   Altinel, Deniz ^a,b,c   Volkan Adsay, N ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ampullary adenomyoma; autoimmune pancreatitis; chronic pancreatitis; hamartoma; lipomatous pseudohypertrophy; pancreatic adenocarcinoma; paraduodenal pancreatitis; pseudolymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMPULLARY ADENOMYOMA; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CYTOPLASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMARTOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LIPOMATOUS HYPERTROPHY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS ISLET CELL HYPERPLASIA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PARADUODENAL PANCREATITIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; PSEUDOTUMOR; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA;

EID: 46449089484     PISSN: 17562317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpdhp.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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