Clinical and Prognostic Significances of Cytokeratin 19 and KIT Expression in Surgically Resectable Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

• Main Authors: Eun-Mi Son (Author), Joo Young Kim (Author), Soyeon An (Author), Ki-Byung Song (Author), Song Cheol Kim (Author), Eunsil Yu (Author), Seung-Mo Hong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pathologists & the Korean Society for Cytopathology, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) are malignant endocrine neoplasms that present diverse clinical behaviors. Therefore, identification of biomarkers of PanNETs is important for stratification of the prognosis of PanNET patients. Recently, cytokeratin 19 (CK19) and KIT expression...