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Case Reports
. 2014 Aug;80(2):361-2.
doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2014.02.030.

Primary pancreatic leiomyosarcoma: a rare diagnosis obtained by EUS-FNA cytology

Shantel Hébert-Magee  1 , Shyam Varadarajulu  1 , Andra R Frost  2 , Jayapal Ramesh  3
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Case Reports

Primary pancreatic leiomyosarcoma: a rare diagnosis obtained by EUS-FNA cytology

Shantel Hébert-Magee et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2014 Aug.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
EUS-guided FNA performed with a curvilinear echoendoscope, demonstrating a large hypoechoic mass in the pancreatic head region.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Cytologic features consisting of cohesive spindle-shaped cells in parallel arrangement, with large blunt-ended “cigar” nuclei, with pleomorphism, high nuclear-cytoplasmic (N/C) ratios, and mitotic figures embedded in thick metachromatic fibrotic stroma (Diff-Quik, ×200).
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