Pathomorphologic study of undifferentiated carcinoma in seven cases: Relationship between tumor and pancreatic duct epithelium

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 478-484

  Naito, Yoshiki ^a   Kinoshita, Hisafumi ^a   Okabe, Yoshinobu ^a   Arikawa, Shunji ^a   Higaki, Koichi ^b   Morimitsu, Yosuke ^c   Yamasaki, Fumio ^d   Suda, Koichi ^e   Yasumoto, Makiko ^a   Kusano, Hironori ^a   Nakashima, Osamu ^a   Yano, Hirohisa ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Social Insurance Tagawa Hospital   (Japan)

^d SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Tokyo west Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pancreas; Pancreatic duct; Undifferentiated carcinoma

Indexed keywords

VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; OSTEOCLAST; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS JUICE; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC JUICE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67650565129     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-009-0078-6     Document Type: Article

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