pancreatic endocrine carcinoma
MONDO:0005893Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names pancreatic endocrine carcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
An aggressive, high-grade and poorly differentiated carcinoma with neuroendocrine differentiation that arises from the pancreas. The mitotic count is more than 20 per 10 HPF. According to the size of the malignant cells, the prominence of the nucleoli, and the amount of cytoplasm, it is classified either as small or large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005893), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
Other names
23 names
Resolves to: pancreatic endocrine carcinoma
- Also called
- carcinoma of endocrine pancreascarcinoma, islet cell, malignantendocrine pancreas carcinomahigh grade pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinomahigh-grade pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinomaislet cell cancerislet cell carcinomaislet cell carcinoma (morphologic abnormality)malignant islet cell tumormalignant islet cell tumourmalignant neoplasm of islets of Langerhansmalignant pancreatic endocrine tumormalignant pancreatic endocrine tumourpancreatic endocrine cancerpancreatic NEC