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Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma
Undifferentiated osteoclast-like giant cell pancreatic carcinoma (UC-OGC) is a rare pancreatic carcinoma that is composed of osteoclast-like giant cells among other cells and is hardly described in literature due to its infrequent presentation. With that, a rare symptom of pancreatic cancers is uppe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9433786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36059324 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27586 |
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author | Swaid, Mehdi B Vitale, Erin Alatassi, Nieem Siddiqui, Hassaan Yazdani, Habeeb |
author_facet | Swaid, Mehdi B Vitale, Erin Alatassi, Nieem Siddiqui, Hassaan Yazdani, Habeeb |
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description | Undifferentiated osteoclast-like giant cell pancreatic carcinoma (UC-OGC) is a rare pancreatic carcinoma that is composed of osteoclast-like giant cells among other cells and is hardly described in literature due to its infrequent presentation. With that, a rare symptom of pancreatic cancers is upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. We report a 76-year-old African American male who presented with one episode of bloody emesis associated with intermittent episodes of severe abdominal pain and a 25 lbs of unintentional weight loss secondary to metastatic UC-OGC. The patient was stabilized and referred to an oncologist for further treatment. We present this case to add to the existing literature on UC-OGC of the pancreas. |
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spelling | pubmed-94337862022-09-03 Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma Swaid, Mehdi B Vitale, Erin Alatassi, Nieem Siddiqui, Hassaan Yazdani, Habeeb Cureus Internal Medicine Undifferentiated osteoclast-like giant cell pancreatic carcinoma (UC-OGC) is a rare pancreatic carcinoma that is composed of osteoclast-like giant cells among other cells and is hardly described in literature due to its infrequent presentation. With that, a rare symptom of pancreatic cancers is upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. We report a 76-year-old African American male who presented with one episode of bloody emesis associated with intermittent episodes of severe abdominal pain and a 25 lbs of unintentional weight loss secondary to metastatic UC-OGC. The patient was stabilized and referred to an oncologist for further treatment. We present this case to add to the existing literature on UC-OGC of the pancreas. Cureus 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9433786/ /pubmed/36059324 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27586 Text en Copyright © 2022, Swaid 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 | Internal Medicine Swaid, Mehdi B Vitale, Erin Alatassi, Nieem Siddiqui, Hassaan Yazdani, Habeeb Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma |
title | Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma |
title_full | Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma |
title_fullStr | Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma |
title_short | Metastatic Undifferentiated Osteoclast-Like Giant Cell Pancreatic Carcinoma |
title_sort | metastatic undifferentiated osteoclast-like giant cell pancreatic carcinoma |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9433786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36059324 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27586 |
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