Mesopancreas: Myth or reality?

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-233

  Agrawal, Manish K ^a   Thakur, Dilip Singh ^a   Somashekar, Uday ^a   Chandrakar, Shiv Kumar ^a   Sharma, Dhananjaya ^a  

^a NSCB MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Pancreatic ductal; Pancreaticoduodenectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC DUCT; DUODENUM; GALLBLADDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MESOPANCREAS; MICROSCOPY; PANCREAS; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CADAVER; CELIAC PLEXUS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DISSECTION; DUODENUM; FASCIA; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 77953669057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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