التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Concurrent insulinoma and pancreatic adenocarcinoma: report of a rare case and review of the literature |
| المؤلفون: |
Athanasopoulos, P.G. Polymeneas, G. Dellaportas, D. Mastorakos, G. Kairi, E. Voros, D. |
| سنة النشر: |
2011 |
| الوصف: |
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the 5th leading cause of cancer-related death in Western countries and insulinomas are rare endocrine neoplasms of the pancreas. The concurrent appearance of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and insulinoma is very rare and to the best of our knowledge has never been reported again. Herein, we present such an occurrence in a 74-year-old man. Resection of a mass in the uncinate process of the pancreas revealed pancreatic adenocarcinoma with severe desmoplastic reaction. Two years later, due to symptomatology persistence the patient was re-examined and a new 2cm mass in the uncinate process was found leading to surgery, which demonstrated a 2cm endocrine islet-cell tumor. Establishing a diagnosis in patients with insulinoma is difficult and the imaging studies still have low sensitivity and specificity except for intra-operative ultrasonography, which is the most accurate method detecting 90% of these lesions. © 2011 Athanasopoulos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. |
| اللغة: |
English |
| URL الوصول: |
https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=od______2127::db72c933a9f70bec51a6b82237e85a5c
https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/uoadl:3111692 |
| Rights: |
OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsair.od......2127..db72c933a9f70bec51a6b82237e85a5c |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
OpenAIRE |