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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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Autores principales: Swaid, Mehdi B, Vitale, Erin, Alatassi, Nieem, Siddiqui, Hassaan, Yazdani, Habeeb
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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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
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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.
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Swaid, Mehdi B
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Alatassi, Nieem
Siddiqui, Hassaan
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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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