Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis: The Role of Hypercalcemia

A 53-year-old smoker female presented to our hospital with abdominal pain secondary to acute pancreatitis. Severe hypercalcemia was felt to be the precipitating cause of pancreatitis. Her work up showed SCLC with bone marrow metastases as the only site of extra-thoracic metastases. We review the lit...

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Autores principales: Tan, Jessica, Calvo, Alejandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147278
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/wjon266w
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description A 53-year-old smoker female presented to our hospital with abdominal pain secondary to acute pancreatitis. Severe hypercalcemia was felt to be the precipitating cause of pancreatitis. Her work up showed SCLC with bone marrow metastases as the only site of extra-thoracic metastases. We review the literature regarding hypercalcemia mechanisms in patients with SCLC.
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spelling pubmed-56498362017-11-16 Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis: The Role of Hypercalcemia Tan, Jessica Calvo, Alejandro World J Oncol Case Report A 53-year-old smoker female presented to our hospital with abdominal pain secondary to acute pancreatitis. Severe hypercalcemia was felt to be the precipitating cause of pancreatitis. Her work up showed SCLC with bone marrow metastases as the only site of extra-thoracic metastases. We review the literature regarding hypercalcemia mechanisms in patients with SCLC. Elmer Press 2012-02 2012-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5649836/ /pubmed/29147278 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/wjon266w Text en Copyright 2012, Tan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis: The Role of Hypercalcemia
title_sort small cell lung cancer (sclc) presenting as acute pancreatitis: the role of hypercalcemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649836/
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