title: [Perineural pseudoinvasion in chronic pancreatitis].
abstract: The occurrence of perineural epithelial complexes within the pancreas cannot always be regarded as evidence of malignancy. Chronic pancreatitis can induce alterations in the anatomy of the organ with a histological picture comparable to that of neural invasion. The important criteria for differential diagnosis are neuroendocrine differentiation of these cells or their ductular morphology without atypia.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologie der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hauptmann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hauptmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002455:Cell Division; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000473:pathology; D010179:Pancreas / Q000294:innervation* / Q000473:pathology*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000473:pathology*