Peripancreatic paraganglioma: A potential diagnostic challenge in cytopathology and surgical pathology

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1498-1504

  Singhi, Aatur D ^a   Hruban, Ralph H ^a   Fabre, Monique ^b   Imura, Johji ^c   Schulick, Richard ^a   Wolfgang, Christopher ^a   Ali, Syed Z ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FNA; pancreas; pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor; paraganglioma; peripancreatic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; CHEMODECTOMA; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PARAGANGLIOMA, EXTRA-ADRENAL;

EID: 80053349682     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3182281767     Document Type: Article

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