Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors
Pancreatic endocrine tumors diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration
Published in Cancer Weekly, November 14th, 2006
"Precise localization and diagnosis of PETs is important, because pancreatic PETs have different clinical and biological behavior and treatment modalities than do exocrine pancreatic tumors. In contrast to the much more common exocrine adenocarcinomas, cytologic studies of PET are relatively rare and many cytopathologists lack experience with the cytomorphologic features of these tumors," researchers in England reported.
"During the last 10 yr, EUS-guided FNA has matured into an accurate, highly sensitive, and cost-effective...
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