Metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) of pancreas and breast: A unique case

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vernadakis, Spiridon ^a   Moris, Demetrios ^a,b   Bankfalvi, Agnes ^a   Makris, Nikolaos ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma; Merkel cell polyomavirus; Metastasis; Pancreatic tumors

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 20; CYTOKERATIN ANTIBODY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VIRUS DNA;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL MASS; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PERITONEAL DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SPLENECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD56; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84884998736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-11-261     Document Type: Article

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