Ascitic fluid cytology in a rare case of pseudomyxoma peritonei originating from intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas

Cytopathology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 271-273

  Nepka, C ^a   Potamianos, S ^a   Karadana, M ^a   BarbanisS , ^a   Kapsoritakis, A ^a   Koukoulis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ASCITES FLUID CYTOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS TUMOR; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITIC FLUID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 68149114135     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2008.00617.x     Document Type: Letter

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