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A case of AFP-positive pancreas papillary carcinoma suggestive of a primitive endoderm phenotype.
Acta pathologica japonica - 1 Jan 2000
Iwai K, Ishikura H, Inoue T, Yoshiki T
Abstract excerpt
In a 70 year old woman with a tumor in the head of the pancreas, the lesion was predominantly composed of papillary adenocarcinoma protruding into the main pancreatic duct, with periductal invasion. The major portion of the adenocarcinoma was intraductal and was composed of tall columnar epithelial cells with pseudostratified nuclei, had the appearance of primitive endodermal epithelium and was positive for...
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