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Pancreatic malignant fibrous histiocytoma, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, and inflammatory pseudotumor related to autoimmune pancreatitis: characterization and differential diagnosis.
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 May 2006
Mizukami Hiroki, Yajima Nobuhisa, Wada Ryuichi, Matsumoto Kazuhito, Kojima Motohiro, Klöppel Günter, Yagihashi Soroku
Abstract excerpt
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) and inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) are uncommon primary non-epithelial cell tumors of the pancreas. In addition, there are inflammatory pseudotumors (IPT) that may arise in the course of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). In the English language literature, only 24 cases of IMT and nine cases of MFH in the pancreas have been reported to date. We investigated three...
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