Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 3-9 , February 2007

Intestinal type adenocarcinoma: a previously unrecognized histologic variant of ductal carcinoma of the pancreas

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doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2006.06.008

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 3-9 , February 2007

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