Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report

The uncinate process is a hook-like projection of the inferior aspect of the head of the pancreas. Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas is considered to be rare, difficult to diagnose and particularly devastating. The current method of detection is computed tomography. We report a case...

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Autores principales: Shanmugarajah, Kumaran, Hui, Elaine, Vergis, Nikhil, Schelvan, Chris, Robinson, Stephen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184696
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8780
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author Shanmugarajah, Kumaran
Hui, Elaine
Vergis, Nikhil
Schelvan, Chris
Robinson, Stephen
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Hui, Elaine
Vergis, Nikhil
Schelvan, Chris
Robinson, Stephen
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description The uncinate process is a hook-like projection of the inferior aspect of the head of the pancreas. Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas is considered to be rare, difficult to diagnose and particularly devastating. The current method of detection is computed tomography. We report a case of carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas in a patient who initially presented with deep vein thrombosis. The diagnosis of carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas should be considered in patients who present with primary thromboembolic disease and other nonspecific signs.
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spelling pubmed-28270612010-02-24 Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report Shanmugarajah, Kumaran Hui, Elaine Vergis, Nikhil Schelvan, Chris Robinson, Stephen Cases J Research article The uncinate process is a hook-like projection of the inferior aspect of the head of the pancreas. Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas is considered to be rare, difficult to diagnose and particularly devastating. The current method of detection is computed tomography. We report a case of carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas in a patient who initially presented with deep vein thrombosis. The diagnosis of carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas should be considered in patients who present with primary thromboembolic disease and other nonspecific signs. BioMed Central 2009-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2827061/ /pubmed/20184696 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8780 Text en Copyright ©2009 Shanmugarajah et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shanmugarajah, Kumaran
Hui, Elaine
Vergis, Nikhil
Schelvan, Chris
Robinson, Stephen
Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report
title Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report
title_full Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report
title_fullStr Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report
title_short Carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report
title_sort carcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas presenting with deep vein thrombosis: a case report
topic Research article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184696
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8780
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