Solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report

Here, we report a first case of ampullary cancer with solitary metastasis of the spleen, which was successfully treated with pancreatoduodenectomy and splenectomy and was discharged 7 days after the operation with outpatient chemotherapy. In such cases, physicians should consider splenectomy as an e...

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Autor principal: Phan, Tri M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1414
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spelling pubmed-58892262018-04-10 Solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report Phan, Tri M. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Here, we report a first case of ampullary cancer with solitary metastasis of the spleen, which was successfully treated with pancreatoduodenectomy and splenectomy and was discharged 7 days after the operation with outpatient chemotherapy. In such cases, physicians should consider splenectomy as an effective treatment option. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5889226/ /pubmed/29636917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1414 Text en © 2018 The Author. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report
title_full Solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report
title_fullStr Solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report
title_short Solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report
title_sort solitary metastasis of ampullary carcinoma to the spleen: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1414
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