Pancreatic PEComa (sugar tumor): MDCT and EUS features

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 679-682

  Baez, Juan C ^a   Landry, Jean M ^a   Saltzman, Jonathan R ^a   Qian, Xiaohua ^a   Zinner, Michael J ^a   Mortelé, Koenraad J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosonography; Pancreatic neoplasms; Perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasms; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; IOPROMIDE; MELAN A; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ABDOMINAL BULGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MESENCHYMOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PERIVASCULAR EPITHELIOID CELL TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PERIVASCULAR EPITHELIOID CELL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70449512671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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