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Tumors of the Exocrine Pancreas

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Nonneoplastic benign nodular hyperplasia much more common than true neoplasms

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Plog, S. (2016). Tumors of the Exocrine Pancreas. In: Klopfleisch, R. (eds) Veterinary Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41124-8_10

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