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Extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma of the Pancreas: An Uncommon but Treatable Disease

Extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor (ES/PNET) is a rare but aggressive and malignant tumor, and has been reported in various sites such as the lungs, biliary tract, kidney, prostate, stomach, esophagus, oral cavity, salivary glands, urinary bladder, uterus, cervix, gona...

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Autores principales: Saif, Muhammad W, Kaley, Kristin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29387511
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1882
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description Extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor (ES/PNET) is a rare but aggressive and malignant tumor, and has been reported in various sites such as the lungs, biliary tract, kidney, prostate, stomach, esophagus, oral cavity, salivary glands, urinary bladder, uterus, cervix, gonads, and vagina. However, the pancreas is considered to be an extremely uncommon site and only a handful of cases have been published to date. We present here another case of a pancreatic ES/PNET. Our case intensifies the importance to recognize this rare type of tumor in the pancreas as there is a broad spectrum of tumors with a similar morphology that includes sheets of small, round blue cells. As observed in our present case, this problem is markedly challenged when the tumor site of origin is uncertain.
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spelling pubmed-57863512018-01-31 Extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma of the Pancreas: An Uncommon but Treatable Disease Saif, Muhammad W Kaley, Kristin Cureus Gastroenterology Extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor (ES/PNET) is a rare but aggressive and malignant tumor, and has been reported in various sites such as the lungs, biliary tract, kidney, prostate, stomach, esophagus, oral cavity, salivary glands, urinary bladder, uterus, cervix, gonads, and vagina. However, the pancreas is considered to be an extremely uncommon site and only a handful of cases have been published to date. We present here another case of a pancreatic ES/PNET. Our case intensifies the importance to recognize this rare type of tumor in the pancreas as there is a broad spectrum of tumors with a similar morphology that includes sheets of small, round blue cells. As observed in our present case, this problem is markedly challenged when the tumor site of origin is uncertain. Cureus 2017-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5786351/ /pubmed/29387511 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1882 Text en Copyright © 2017, Saif et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title Extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma of the Pancreas: An Uncommon but Treatable Disease
title_full Extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma of the Pancreas: An Uncommon but Treatable Disease
title_fullStr Extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma of the Pancreas: An Uncommon but Treatable Disease
title_full_unstemmed Extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma of the Pancreas: An Uncommon but Treatable Disease
title_short Extraosseous Ewing's Sarcoma of the Pancreas: An Uncommon but Treatable Disease
title_sort extraosseous ewing's sarcoma of the pancreas: an uncommon but treatable disease
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29387511
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1882
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