Pancreatic-type acinar cell carcinoma of the liver: A clinicopathologic study of four patients

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1620-1626

  Agaimy, Abbas ^a   Kaiser, Annette ^b   Becker, Karen ^c   Bräsen, Jan Hinrich ^d   Wünsch, Peter H ^b   Adsay, N Volkan ^e   Klöppel, Günter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

acinar cell carcinoma; differential diagnosis; immunohistochemistry; liver neoplasms; pancreas

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACINAR CELL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 82555191045     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.127     Document Type: Article

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