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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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Autores principales: Alfaraj, Dunya, AlOtaibi, Rawan O, Bamousa, Reema M, Alzamami, Jana F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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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
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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.
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Alfaraj, Dunya
AlOtaibi, Rawan O
Bamousa, Reema M
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Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
title Pathological Fracture as the Initial Presentation of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
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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/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20920
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