Secondary Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater: A Tale of Two Cases

We report two cases of women with metastatic cancers to ampulla of Vater. The first was 91 years old and presented with severe anemia, due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding. She had history of renal cell cancer treated with nephrectomy 8 years ago and diagnosis confirmed to be metastasis of renal c...

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Autores principales: Ali, Jafer, Khan, Asad, Ahmed, Mohamed H., Madhotra, Ravi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8714407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34975261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1732810
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description We report two cases of women with metastatic cancers to ampulla of Vater. The first was 91 years old and presented with severe anemia, due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding. She had history of renal cell cancer treated with nephrectomy 8 years ago and diagnosis confirmed to be metastasis of renal cell cancer to ampulla of Vater. The second patient was 54 years old with breast cancer, metastasis and developed obstructive jaundice; diagnosis confirmed to be breast metastasis in the ampulla of Vater. Secondary tumors of the ampulla of Vater due to breast cancer and renal cell cancer are rare findings and prognosis can be poor.
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spelling pubmed-87144072021-12-30 Secondary Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater: A Tale of Two Cases Ali, Jafer Khan, Asad Ahmed, Mohamed H. Madhotra, Ravi J Lab Physicians We report two cases of women with metastatic cancers to ampulla of Vater. The first was 91 years old and presented with severe anemia, due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding. She had history of renal cell cancer treated with nephrectomy 8 years ago and diagnosis confirmed to be metastasis of renal cell cancer to ampulla of Vater. The second patient was 54 years old with breast cancer, metastasis and developed obstructive jaundice; diagnosis confirmed to be breast metastasis in the ampulla of Vater. Secondary tumors of the ampulla of Vater due to breast cancer and renal cell cancer are rare findings and prognosis can be poor. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8714407/ /pubmed/34975261 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1732810 Text en The Indian Association of Laboratory Physicians. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Secondary Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater: A Tale of Two Cases
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title_short Secondary Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater: A Tale of Two Cases
title_sort secondary tumors of the ampulla of vater: a tale of two cases
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8714407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34975261
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