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Primary leiomyosarcoma of the pancreas — a case report and case review

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  1. Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka 2-2, Suita, 565-0871, Osaka, Japan

    Hiroshi Komoda, Toshirou Nishida, Takeyoshi Yumiba, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Toru Kitagawa, Toshinori Ito & Hikaru Matsuda

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    Sei-ichi Hirota

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Komoda, H., Nishida, T., Yumiba, T. et al. Primary leiomyosarcoma of the pancreas — a case report and case review. Virchows Arch 440, 334–337 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-001-0557-x

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