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Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer with bone metastasis is considered a very rare malignancy. Although the incidence rate of people with pancreatic cancer who develop bone metastasis is unknown, it is estimated as between 5% and 20%. We report a 61-year-old lady who had multiple emergency department visits complaini...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8725633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35004081 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20920 |
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author | Alfaraj, Dunya AlOtaibi, Rawan O Bamousa, Reema M Alzamami, Jana F |
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description | Pancreatic cancer with bone metastasis is considered a very rare malignancy. Although the incidence rate of people with pancreatic cancer who develop bone metastasis is unknown, it is estimated as between 5% and 20%. We report a 61-year-old lady who had multiple emergency department visits complaining of lower back pain radiating to the lower limbs for five months. Clinical and imaging workup suggested pancreatic adenocarcinoma metastasis to the second lumbar vertebra (L2), lungs, and ovaries. |
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spelling | pubmed-87256332022-01-06 Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Alfaraj, Dunya AlOtaibi, Rawan O Bamousa, Reema M Alzamami, Jana F Cureus Emergency Medicine Pancreatic cancer with bone metastasis is considered a very rare malignancy. Although the incidence rate of people with pancreatic cancer who develop bone metastasis is unknown, it is estimated as between 5% and 20%. We report a 61-year-old lady who had multiple emergency department visits complaining of lower back pain radiating to the lower limbs for five months. Clinical and imaging workup suggested pancreatic adenocarcinoma metastasis to the second lumbar vertebra (L2), lungs, and ovaries. Cureus 2022-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8725633/ /pubmed/35004081 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20920 Text en Copyright © 2022, Alfaraj et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Alfaraj, Dunya AlOtaibi, Rawan O Bamousa, Reema M Alzamami, Jana F Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer |
title | Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer |
title_full | Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer |
title_fullStr | Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer |
title_short | Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer |
title_sort | pathological fracture as the initial presentation of metastatic pancreatic cancer |
topic | Emergency Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8725633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35004081 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20920 |
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