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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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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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author Lampropoulos, Pavlos
Filippou, Georgios
Skafida, Evangelia
Vasilakaki, Thivi
Paschalidis, Nikolaos
Rizos, Spiros
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Filippou, Georgios
Skafida, Evangelia
Vasilakaki, Thivi
Paschalidis, Nikolaos
Rizos, Spiros
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description 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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spelling pubmed-28039262010-01-10 Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report Lampropoulos, Pavlos Filippou, Georgios Skafida, Evangelia Vasilakaki, Thivi Paschalidis, Nikolaos Rizos, Spiros Cases J 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 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. BioMed Central 2009-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2803926/ /pubmed/20062646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9129 Text en Copyright ©2009 Lampropoulos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lampropoulos, Pavlos
Filippou, Georgios
Skafida, Evangelia
Vasilakaki, Thivi
Paschalidis, Nikolaos
Rizos, Spiros
Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
title Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
title_full Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
title_fullStr Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
title_short Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
title_sort adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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