A case report of anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas with remarkable intraductal tumor growth into the main pancreatic duct

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 852-856

  Okazaki, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Makino, Isamu ^a   Kitagawa, Hirohisa ^a   Nakanuma, Shinichi ^a   Hayashi, Hironori ^a   Nakagawara, Hisatoshi ^a   Miyashita, Tomoharu ^a   Tajima, Hidehiro ^a   Takamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohta, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic carcinoma; Giant cell carcinoma; Intraductal tumor growth; Papillary projecting tumor

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS TUMOR; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS RESECTION; SPLENECTOMY; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; INTRADUCTAL TUMOR GROWTH; PAPILLARY PROJECTING TUMOR;

AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, GIANT CELL; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892848858     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i3.852     Document Type: Article

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