A Patient with Chronic Hepatitis C and a Pancreatic Mass in Endoscopic Ultrasound

We report a rare case of pancreas tumor (lymphoma) in a patient with a history of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection without treatment, with a high viral load (20,199,805 IU/ml). He presented with abdominal pain, jaundice, weight loss and sweating. Computed tomography showed a hypodense mass...

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Autores principales: Ghobakhlou, Mehdi, Alizadeh, Amir Houshang Mohammad, Naderi, Nosratollah, Haghighi, Shirin, Molaei, Mahsa, Rafiezadeh, Mitra, Zali, Mohammad Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2012
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Published online: June, 2012
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3398077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22855657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000339693
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Sumario:We report a rare case of pancreas tumor (lymphoma) in a patient with a history of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection without treatment, with a high viral load (20,199,805 IU/ml). He presented with abdominal pain, jaundice, weight loss and sweating. Computed tomography showed a hypodense mass located in the head of the pancreas, and immunohistochemistry of a specimen obtained by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration revealed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the pancreas, B cell type. An association of HCV infection with pancreatic lymphoma has only been reported rarely in the literature and its clinical significance is uncertain.

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