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p16(INK4a) alterations in chronic pancreatitis-indicator for high-risk lesions for pancreatic cancer.
Surgery - 1 Apr 2001
Gerdes B, Ramaswamy A, Kersting M, Ernst M, Lang S, Schuermann M, Wild A, Bartsch D K
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BACKGROUND: p16(INK4a) alterations are considered to be an early event in pancreatic tumorigenesis and have been described in duct lesions adjacent to pancreatic cancers. This study evaluates whether duct lesions in chronic pancreatitis tissues of patients without pancreatic cancer also harbor genetic alterations in the p16(INK4a) tumor-suppressor gene, and thus represent high-risk precursors for pancreatic...
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