Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of clear-cell pancreatic endocrine neoplasm in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease: A case report

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 365-372

  Safo, Anthony Osei F ^a   Li, Rebecca W ^a   Vickers, Selwyn M ^a   Schmechel, Stephen C ^a   Pambuccian, Stefan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clear cell neoplasm; Cytology; Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration; Pancreas; Pancreatic endocrine neoplasms; Von hippel lindau disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CASE REPORT; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY METASTASIS; MALE; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADULT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOCRINE GLAND NEOPLASMS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; VON HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE;

EID: 66349118727     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21032     Document Type: Article

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