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Unusual pancreatic tumours

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Management of Rare Adult Tumours

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As pancreatic neoplasms include a large variety of tumours, we limit this review to those tumours whose treatment can lead to relatively good outcome. The therapeutic strategy in such cases remains controversial. In this chapter, we review the current management of endocrine tumours, cystic tumours and metastases to the pancreas.

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  1. Hôpital Henri-Mondor, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94000, Créteil Cedex, France

    Yazid Belkacémi MD PhD (Professor Radiation Oncology, Deputy Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) (Professor Radiation Oncology, Deputy Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology)

  2. Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudoir, Rue du Bugnon, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

    René-Olivier Mirimanoff MD (Professeur Radiation Oncology, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) & Mahmut Ozsahin MD PhD (Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology) (Professeur Radiation Oncology, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology) &  (Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology)

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Nguyen, T.V.F., Dupont-Gossart, AC. (2009). Unusual pancreatic tumours. In: Belkacémi, Y., Mirimanoff, RO., Ozsahin, M. (eds) Management of Rare Adult Tumours. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-287-92246-6_22

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