Primary sarcoma of the pancreas, a rare histopathological entity. A case report with review of literature

AIMS: primary pancreatic sarcomas represent an extremely rare histopathological entity accounting for less than 0.1% of all pancreatic malignancies. Pancreatic sarcomas tend to be more aggressive and have a poor prognosis. METHODS: the case of a 52 year old patient presenting with jaundice is presen...

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Autores principales: Ambe, Peter, Kautz, Christian, Shadouh, Shawqi, Heggemann, Silvia, K&#246hler, Lothar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21812970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-85
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author Ambe, Peter
Kautz, Christian
Shadouh, Shawqi
Heggemann, Silvia
K&#246hler, Lothar
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description AIMS: primary pancreatic sarcomas represent an extremely rare histopathological entity accounting for less than 0.1% of all pancreatic malignancies. Pancreatic sarcomas tend to be more aggressive and have a poor prognosis. METHODS: the case of a 52 year old patient presenting with jaundice is presented and the available literature was reviewed. RESULTS: primary pancreatic sarcomas are extremely rare. Pancreatic sarcomas are more aggressive than other pancreatic neoplasms. CONCLUSION: primary sarcomas of the pancreas are extremely rare, are aggressive and are associated with very poor prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-31684092011-09-08 Primary sarcoma of the pancreas, a rare histopathological entity. A case report with review of literature Ambe, Peter Kautz, Christian Shadouh, Shawqi Heggemann, Silvia K&#246hler, Lothar World J Surg Oncol Case Report AIMS: primary pancreatic sarcomas represent an extremely rare histopathological entity accounting for less than 0.1% of all pancreatic malignancies. Pancreatic sarcomas tend to be more aggressive and have a poor prognosis. METHODS: the case of a 52 year old patient presenting with jaundice is presented and the available literature was reviewed. RESULTS: primary pancreatic sarcomas are extremely rare. Pancreatic sarcomas are more aggressive than other pancreatic neoplasms. CONCLUSION: primary sarcomas of the pancreas are extremely rare, are aggressive and are associated with very poor prognosis. BioMed Central 2011-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3168409/ /pubmed/21812970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-85 Text en Copyright ©2011 Ambe 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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Heggemann, Silvia
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title_sort primary sarcoma of the pancreas, a rare histopathological entity. a case report with review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168409/
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