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- Title
Treatment of Rare and Aggressive Pancreatic Carcinosarcoma.
- Authors
Quinn, Patrick L.; Ohioma, Donald; Jones, Anja M. K.; Ahlawat, Sushil K.; Chokshi, Ravi J.
- Abstract
A42-year-old African American woman presented with 4 days of worsening midepigastric pain that radiated to her back.Computed tomography confirmed a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis and revealed a mass within the distal body and tail of the pancreas. After an endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration yielding atypical cells suspicious for adenocarcinoma, the patient underwent an en bloc resection of the intra-abdominal mass with subtotal pancreatectomy, splenectomy, left colectomy, and left partial adrenalectomy. Histopathologic examination findings, in addition to immunohistochemical staining, revealed a diagnosis of pancreatic carcinosarcoma. Postoperatively, the patient has undergone 20 cycles of chemotherapy and has been transitioned to comfort measures at 16 months postoperatively because of progressive disease.
- Subjects
ADRENALECTOMY; CANCER chemotherapy; COLECTOMY; COMPUTED tomography; ENDOSCOPIC ultrasonography; HUMAN comfort; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEEDLE biopsy; PAIN; PANCREATIC tumors; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATITIS; RARE diseases; SARCOMA; SPLENECTOMY; ACUTE diseases
- Publication
ACG Case Reports Journal, 2020, Vol 7, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
2326-3253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14309/crj.0000000000000379