Pancreatic acinar cell carcinomas with prominent ductal differentiation: Mixed acinar ductal carcinoma and mixed acinar endocrine ductal carcinoma

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 510-518

  Stelow, Edward B ^a   Shaco Levy, Ruthy ^b,c   Bao, Fei ^b,d   Garcia, Joaquin ^b,e   Klimstra, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinar cell carcinoma; Ductal adenocarcinoma; Mixed; Mucinous; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

DNA; KRAS PROTEIN, HUMAN; MUCIN; ONCOPROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CANCER; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS ISLET CELL CARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; CARCINOMA, ISLET CELL; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEW YORK; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIRGINIA;

EID: 77950292941     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181cfcac7     Document Type: Article

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