Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of merkel cell carcinoma metastatic to the pancreas

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 247-252

  Bernstein, Jane ^a   Adeniran, Adebowale J ^a   Cai, Guoping ^a   Theoharis, Constantine G A ^a   Ustun, Berrin ^a   Beckman, Danita ^a   Aslanian, Harry R ^a   Harigopal, Malini ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cytology; fine needle aspiration; Merkel cell carcinoma; pancreas

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION; MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; PANCREAS;

CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84894229537     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.22884     Document Type: Article

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