Huge pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma with high levels of AFP and fucosylated AFP (AFP-L3)

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1341-1349

  Hiraoka, Atsushi ^a   Nakahara, Hiromasa ^a,b   Kawasaki, Hideki ^a   Shimizu, Yuko ^a   Hidaka, Satoshi ^a   Imai, Yusuke ^a   Utsunomiya, Hiroki ^a   Tatsukawa, Haruka ^a   Tazuya, Nayu ^a   Yamago, Hiroka ^a   Yorimitsu, Nobukazu ^a   Tanihira, Tetsuya ^a   Hasebe, Aki ^a   Miyamoto, Yasunao ^a   Ninomiya, Tomoyuki ^a   Abe, Masanori ^c   Hiasa, Yoichi ^c   Matsuura, Bunzo ^c   Onji, Morikazu ^c   Michitaka, Kojiro ^a  

^a EHIME PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Matsuyama Shimin Hospital   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acinar cell carcinoma; AFP; AFP L3; Pancreatic neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; FUCOSYLATED ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; GEMCITABINE; MITOMYCIN C; ONCOFETAL ANTIGEN; PICIBANIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROKINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BILE DUCT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PANCREAS ANGIOGRAPHY; PANCREAS METASTASIS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATIC ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPLENIC VEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FUCOSE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863110350     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6536     Document Type: Article

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