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Foamy gland pattern of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a deceptively benign-appearing variant.
The American journal of surgical pathology - 1 Apr 2000
Adsay V, Logani S, Sarkar F, Crissman J, Vaitkevicius V
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Pathologic diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma is frequently a challenge, particularly in small biopsies, frozen sections, and in metastatic foci. Here we report a deceptively benign-appearing and morphologically distinctive pattern of ductal adenocarcinoma with prominent microvesicular cytoplasm, giving the cells a foamy appearance similar to that described in the prostate (Am J Surg Pathol 1996;20:419). This...
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