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Invasive cancer and survival of intraductal papillary mucinous tumors of the pancreas.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Oct 2002
Raimondo Massimo, Tachibana Issei, Urrutia Raul, Burgart Lawrence J, DiMagno Eugene P
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OBJECTIVES: Intraductal papillary mucinous tumor (IPMT) is frequently associated with pancreatic cancer. We hypothesized that IPMT progresses to invasive cancer with K-ras mutations as an early event, and that invasive cancer affects survival. We compared survival after resection and determined whether K-ras mutations predicted survival in IPMT patients without or with invasive cancer. METHODS: Records of 47...
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