With the aim of improving early detection of pancreatic carcinoma, we attempted to make correlations among positive immunohistochemical detection of p53 expression, mutations in the p53 gene, and detailed histologic features of pancreatic carcinoma.
Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. atsuko@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp