Pancreatic ducts as an important route of tumor extension for acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1025-1036

  Ban, Daisuke ^a,b   Shimada, Kazuaki ^b   Sekine, Shigeki ^a   Sakamoto, Yoshihiro ^b   Kosuge, Tomoo ^b   Kanai, Yae ^a   Hiraoka, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

acinar cell carcinoma; intraductal dissemination; intraductal polypoid growth; pancreas; pancreatic duct

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77954218125     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181e2bc11     Document Type: Article

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