Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare variant of exocrine pancreatic tumor. This type of tumor is extremely rare as only few similar cases have been described in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 72 years old male patient who was admitted to the hosp...

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Autores principales: Lampropoulos, Pavlos, Filippou, Georgios, Skafida, Evangelia, Vasilakaki, Thivi, Paschalidis, Nikolaos, Rizos, Spiros
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9129
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare variant of exocrine pancreatic tumor. This type of tumor is extremely rare as only few similar cases have been described in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 72 years old male patient who was admitted to the hospital complaining of epigastric pain and jaundice. Pancreatic carcinoma of the head was diagnosed and a pylorus preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed. CONCLUSION: This type of cancer is a very aggressive tumor followed by a dismisal prognosis. Multimodality therapy seems to be a reasonable approach but more studies are needed, to propose the most effective treatment.

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