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Collision Tumour of the Ampulla of Vater: Carcinoid and Adenocarcinoma
We report the case of a periampullary collision tumor, in which a duodenal-wall carcinoid and an adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas coexisted. We describe the case of a 64-year-old man with a recent history of diarrhea, who was diagnosed with obstructive jaundice. A duodeno-pancreatectomy was performed, and the specimen showed two independent neoplasms in the histopathologic study. Soli...
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Carcinoid tumors of ampulla are rare clinical entities. They form 0.35% of all the gastrointestinal carcinoids. So far, only 109 cases have been reported in the literature, mostly as individual case reports. Since the metastatic potential and the tumor size have no correlation, unlike in duodenal carcinoids, pancreatoduodenectomy is considered the treatment of choice. Here we present a case of ...
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Undifferentiated carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater is a rare disease with unclear and clinical characteristics and prognosis. Here, we report the case of a 61-year-old man with undifferentiated carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater. He presented to our hospital with an increase in hepatobiliary system enzymes that was detected during a health check-up. Imaging and endoscopy demonstrated a tumor wit...
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BACKGROUND Some authors consider the fluctuating jaundice as a classic sign of the adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater. OBJECTIVE Assessing the frequency of fluctuating jaundice in their forms of its depiction in the patients with adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater. METHODS Observational and retrospective study, conducted through analyses of medical records from patients subjected to...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199705000-00015