Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia

We report two clinical cases of primary granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas that were diagnosed on the surgical specimen. Atypical clinical and morphological presentations may have lead to pretherapeutic biopsies of the pancreatic mass in order to indicate primary chemotherapy. Literature review of...

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Autores principales: Messager, Mathieu, Amielh, David, Chevallier, Caroline, Mariette, Christophe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22248364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-13
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author Messager, Mathieu
Amielh, David
Chevallier, Caroline
Mariette, Christophe
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description We report two clinical cases of primary granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas that were diagnosed on the surgical specimen. Atypical clinical and morphological presentations may have lead to pretherapeutic biopsies of the pancreatic mass in order to indicate primary chemotherapy. Literature review of this rare clinical presentation may help physicians to anticipate diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
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spelling pubmed-32834612012-02-22 Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia Messager, Mathieu Amielh, David Chevallier, Caroline Mariette, Christophe World J Surg Oncol Case Report We report two clinical cases of primary granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas that were diagnosed on the surgical specimen. Atypical clinical and morphological presentations may have lead to pretherapeutic biopsies of the pancreatic mass in order to indicate primary chemotherapy. Literature review of this rare clinical presentation may help physicians to anticipate diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. BioMed Central 2012-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3283461/ /pubmed/22248364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-13 Text en Copyright ©2012 Messager 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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Messager, Mathieu
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Chevallier, Caroline
Mariette, Christophe
Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
title Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
title_full Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
title_fullStr Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
title_full_unstemmed Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
title_short Isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: A tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
title_sort isolated granulocytic sarcoma of the pancreas: a tricky diagnostic for primary pancreatic extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22248364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-13
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