title: Cytology of hyperplastic endocrine cells of the pancreas in fine needle aspiration biopsy.
abstract: Hyperplastic endocrine cells of the pancreas occurred in small cohesive clusters with focal glandular arrangement in a fine needle aspirate. They showed pale, filmy, ill-defined cytoplasm and round to oval, slightly hyperchromatic nuclei with small nucleoli.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas / Q000473:pathology*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed