Cancer-associated fibroblasts are a useful cytological finding for diagnosing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Tsubasa SaikaKenichi HirabayashiHitoshi ItohYoko MiyajimaAkihiko SerizawaNobuaki KatoHiroyuki OyamadaTomohisa MachidaAya KawanishiNaoya NakamuraPublished in: Cytopathology : official journal of the British Society for Clinical Cytology (2021)
This study suggested that CAFs on PDBC could be distinguished from normal FS by large nuclear size (over 10.22 µm) and prominent nucleoli and that CAFs on PDBC may be used for the diagnosis of PDAC.
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