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Anaplastic Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas

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    Nickos Michalopoulos, Styliani Laskou, Yiorgos Papadakis & Ioannis Kanellos

  2. Department of Pathology, Ahepa University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Michalopoulos, N., Laskou, S., Papadakis, Y. et al. Anaplastic Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas. J Gastrointest Canc 46, 68–73 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-014-9669-9

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