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Cytological Diagnosis of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms

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Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms

Abstract

The main cytological features of neuroendocrine pancreatic neoplasm are described along with a discussion about the difficulties in classification/grading and the new reporting system for reporting pancreatic cytopathology. An overview about the ancillary techniques and the differential diagnosis is also given.

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  1. Department of Laboratory, Institute of Pathology, CHUV, Rue du Bugnon, 25, Lausanne, CH-1011, Switzerland

    Massimo Bongiovanni MD, Christine Sempoux MD & Antoine Nobile MD

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Bongiovanni, M., Sempoux, C., Nobile, A. (2015). Cytological Diagnosis of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms. In: La Rosa, S., Sessa, F. (eds) Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17235-4_5

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