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Metastatic Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma: An Unlikely Culprit

Although acinar cells comprise a large volume of the pancreas, they rarely transform into malignant neoplasms. Once they arise, they rapidly metastasize via hematogenous spread to other organs such as the brain, liver, lung, and skeletal system. Cutaneous involvement, however, is rarely seen in all...

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Autores principales: Bashinskaya, Alena, Kammerman, Jay, Butson, David, Moody, Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10226385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37255915
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38288
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description Although acinar cells comprise a large volume of the pancreas, they rarely transform into malignant neoplasms. Once they arise, they rapidly metastasize via hematogenous spread to other organs such as the brain, liver, lung, and skeletal system. Cutaneous involvement, however, is rarely seen in all patients with primary pancreatic neoplasms. The most frequently reported site of cutaneous manifestations is the umbilicus, with the other sites including the trunk, lower extremities, head, and neck. Here, we report a case of metastatic pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma with cutaneous involvement of the patient's scalp.
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spelling pubmed-102263852023-05-30 Metastatic Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma: An Unlikely Culprit Bashinskaya, Alena Kammerman, Jay Butson, David Moody, Patricia Cureus Dermatology Although acinar cells comprise a large volume of the pancreas, they rarely transform into malignant neoplasms. Once they arise, they rapidly metastasize via hematogenous spread to other organs such as the brain, liver, lung, and skeletal system. Cutaneous involvement, however, is rarely seen in all patients with primary pancreatic neoplasms. The most frequently reported site of cutaneous manifestations is the umbilicus, with the other sites including the trunk, lower extremities, head, and neck. Here, we report a case of metastatic pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma with cutaneous involvement of the patient's scalp. Cureus 2023-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10226385/ /pubmed/37255915 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38288 Text en Copyright © 2023, Bashinskaya et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Metastatic Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma: An Unlikely Culprit
title_full Metastatic Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma: An Unlikely Culprit
title_fullStr Metastatic Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma: An Unlikely Culprit
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma: An Unlikely Culprit
title_short Metastatic Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma: An Unlikely Culprit
title_sort metastatic pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma: an unlikely culprit
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10226385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37255915
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38288
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