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Pancreatic Lesions: Pathologic Correlations

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Ultrasonography of the Pancreas

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In recent years the evolution of imaging technology has made possible a more detailed identification of the structural features of pancreatic cancers, facilitating the differential diagnosis between different tumor histologies and pancreatic diseases in relation to other tumor-forming lesions. At the same time pathologists have provided a most accurate definition of the different tumor histologies with the development of the most recent WHO classification (2010) [1].

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    Paola Capelli & Alice Parisi

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Capelli, P., Parisi, A. (2012). Pancreatic Lesions: Pathologic Correlations. In: D’Onofrio, M. (eds) Ultrasonography of the Pancreas. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2379-6_12

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