Acinic Cell Carcinoma Literature/Articles/Information

Acinic Cell Carcinoma Subjects

Salivary Gland and Parotid Gland Cancer Overviews (referencing or relevant to ACC) – Articles, Book Excerpts, Links

Salivary Gland and Parotid Gland Cancer: Specific Individual Subjects (referencing or relevant to ACC) – Articles, Book Excerpts, Links

Biologic Characteristics of Salivary Gland Cancers - Pathology, Histology, Cytology, Immunohistochemistry, Histopathology, Cytopathology, Cytogenetics, Genetics, Grade, etc. (relevant to ACC) - Journal Articles, Book Excerpts and Links

Did you know?

The term "acinic" or “acinar” comes from the Latin "acinus", which means "grape" or "grapestone". In botany this refers to one of the small grains which make up fruits like the blackberry and raspberry. So in anatomy “acinus” refers to one of the grapelike granular masses which make up a “racemose” gland. These are found in the salivary glands and in the pancreas. Acinic cell carcinoma is an adenocarcinoma which arises from secreting cells in a racemose gland. If you look at pathology images of the disease, many of them will have a distinctly grapelike appearance.

This page of our website is the main location for finding published or publicly posted information on Acinic Cell Carcinoma (Acinar Cell Carcinoma/Acinic Cell Adenocarcinoma/Acinic Cell Tumors). The pages here are focused on the disease itself as a subject, characteristics of the disease, or any other literature focused specifically on ACC cases or subjects. The general categories of subjects covered are listed above. We have also included literature on Salivary Gland Cancers, which contain reference or relevance to ACC subjects. There are numerous other pages of this website which also contain ACC information. Those pages and subjects are listed at the bottom of this one. If you are looking for a specific subject, you may want to check those headings first, to see if we have isolated a topic on one of these other pages, rather than this one.

In choosing material, we have attempted to be as comprehensive and thorough as possible in our collection of information on these subjects. However, the reality of the situation is that there will always be information sources we didn't find, or that new items were published since our last update. So if you want to look for the latest articles or additional material, we suggest that you scan medical journal search engines (such as PubMed). General internet search engines (such as Google) occasionally turn up new material as well. And of course there are medical libraries. (In your searches, if you find something useful that you think would be important to include on our site, please send an email to edgar@aciniccell.org.)

Most of the journal article citations are displayed here as abstracts (short summaries). Whenever possible, we have also included full text versions. Usually you will find a "full text only" version, and sometimes a "full text with graphics" option, which includes any photos, charts, illustrations, etc. The graphics version may take a little time to show up on your screen, depending on the speed of your computer. Or you may have to wait for each page to load individually. The "text only" versions will be quicker to view, while the graphics versions will include more details. Please note that full text articles or book excerpts are sometimes scanned-in photocopies. We apologize if occasionally there are visual or text imperfections, or underlines /highlighting from our own readings.

We also often provide direct links to internet sources. We offer these in case you want to check out more material on a given subject at those locations. Also, you may want to visit source websites to see if there are newer updates of citations. Sometimes there are also instances where the original versions of material are better presented on the source website. In most cases we have tried to include the material here as well, firstly to save you time and get you immediately to the information. More importantly, it has been our experience that many links disappear or become unavailable over time. And we don't want you to miss out on getting the information. In fact, if in searching our site you discover dead or inoperative links, please let us know.

After each citation name and source, we generally give a short summary of what the citation is about, to help you decide if it is something you want to read or not. These short summaries also sometimes evaluate the importance of the material.

To look at a specific subject area within our entire LITERATURE / ARTICLES / INFORMATION / LINKS pages, click on the desired Subject Heading above or below. To return to this page, hit your BACK button in browser, or a BACK TO MAIN LITERATURE PAGE button.

Please note that there is a section of pages devoted specifically to Acinic Cell Carcinoma TREATMENT, if that is your area of interest.

OTHER PAGES OF ACC-SPECIFIC INFORMATION
ON THIS WEBSITE

There are other pages with ACC related information on this site. We have selected the pages above that we felt were most ACC specific (in addition to the Literature Sub Pages here). Go to the Main (Home) Page to see a list of ALL ACCIC website page options. For literature sub-pages, click a heading below, or at top of this page.

LITERATURE SUB-PAGES

ACC Definitions	ACC Overview Articles	ACC Overview Book Excerpts	ACC Overview Links	ACC Individual Cases	ACC Biologic Characteristics	Basic ACC Research
Pancreatic ACC	Lung ACC	Breast ACC	Animal ACC	Other ACC Subjects	Salivary Gland Overviews	Salivary Gland Indiv. Subjects
			Salivary Gland Biologic Characteristics

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