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Case 13: Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma

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50-year-old man with several months of mild upper abdominal pain and early satiety

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  1. Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215, MA, USA

    Katherine M. Troy MD & Karen S. Lee MD

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  1. The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Atif Zaheer

  2. The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Elliot K. Fishman

  3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Meredith E. Pittman

  4. The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Department of Pathology , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Ralph H. Hruban

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Troy, K.M., Lee, K.S. (2017). Case 13: Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma. In: Zaheer, A., Fishman, E., Pittman, M., Hruban, R. (eds) Pancreatic Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52680-5_13

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