Pancreatic ampullary carcinoma with neck metastases: a case report

BACKGROUND: An 18-year-old Turkish woman was referred with a 6-week history of rapidly enlarging cervical mass at the left side. CASE REPORT: She was diagnosed of ampullary carcinoma for which pancreatoduodenectomy was performed 14 months ago. In our patient with a history of malignancy, a rapidly e...

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Autores principales: Aksoy, Murat, Sumer, Aziz, Sari, Serkan, Mete, Ozgur, Salmaslioglu, Artur, Erbil, Yesim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-146
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: An 18-year-old Turkish woman was referred with a 6-week history of rapidly enlarging cervical mass at the left side. CASE REPORT: She was diagnosed of ampullary carcinoma for which pancreatoduodenectomy was performed 14 months ago. In our patient with a history of malignancy, a rapidly enlarging neck mass was considered a metastasis to the neck. Tumor resection was performed. Histopathological examination revealed the metastasis of the precedent ampullary adenocarcinoma. CONCLUSION: Surgery does not improve survival for advanced metastatic ampullary cancer however, it can be mandatory in specific conditions as our patient.

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