Effective use of gemcitabine in the treatment of undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells of the pancreas with portal vein tumor thrombus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2145-2150

  Yoshioka, Masato ^a   Uchinami, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Go ^a   Takahashi, Tomokazu ^a   Nakagawa, Yasuhiko ^a   Andoh, Hideaki ^a   Yoshioka, Toshiaki ^b   Nanjo, Hiroshi ^b   Yamamoto, Yuzo ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Gemcitabine; Osteoclast like giant cells; Portal vein tumor thrombus; Undifferentiated carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN AE1; CYTOKERATIN AE3; GEMCITABINE; PANCREAS ENZYME; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUCINOUS CYSTIC NEOPLASM; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCLAST; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN TUMOR THROMBUS; SPLENIC VEIN; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR THROMBUS; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN; REMISSION INDUCTION; THROMBECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84865131003     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7670     Document Type: Article

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