Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is by far the most common subtype of pancreatic cancer, ... This type of pancreatic cancer begins in acinar cells, which are a type of exocrine cell.

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes From an Institutional Series of Acinar Cell Carcinoma of the Pancreas and Related Tumors. JCO 20 , 4673-4678 (2002). DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2002.02.005 ...

Biopsy suggested pancreatic acinar cell cancer; serum lipase was elevated to 4 times normal. How to manage the patient?

Acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare aggressive neoplasm constituting 1–2% of pancreatic cancers. 1 These neoplasms affect mostly adults with a mean age of 58.3 years but with a wide ...

Acinar Cell Carcinoma. Acinar cell carcinoma is a rare subtype of pancreatic cancer that originates in the exocrine glands of the pancreas. Unlike the more common ductal adenocarcinoma, ...

Identification of Sox9-Dependent Acinar-to-Ductal Reprogramming as the Principal Mechanism for Initiation of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Cancer Cell , 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.10.025 ...

The non-neoplastic pancreatic parenchyma adjacent to infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma demonstrates inflammation, fibrosis, acinar cell loss and small duct-like metaplasia of acinar cells.

Acinar to ductal metaplasia (ADM) is considered the main origin of pancreatic pre-neoplastic lesions that eventually develop into pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). ADM could be a decisive ...

PURPOSE: Acinar cell carcinoma is a rare tumor of the exocrine pancreas. Clinical features such as prognostic information, survival, and treatment outcomes are unknown. We present the largest ...