Case Report
Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas, a rare tumor entity: a case report
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* Corresponding author: Pavlos Lampropoulos pav.lampropoulos@gmail.com
1 Department of General Surgery, Piraeus General Hospital "Tzaneio", Afentouli & Tzani Str, Piraeus-Athens, 16345, Greece
2 Department of Pathogical and Anatomical, Piraeus General Hospital "Tzaneio", Afentouli & Tzani Str, Piraeus-Athens, 16345, Greece
Cases Journal 2009, 2:9129 doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9129
Published: 2 December 2009Abstract
Introduction
Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare variant of exocrine pancreatic tumor. This type of tumor is extremely rare as only few similar cases have been described in the literature.
Case presentation
We present a case of a 72 years old male patient who was admitted to the hospital complaining of epigastric pain and jaundice. Pancreatic carcinoma of the head was diagnosed and a pylorus preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed.
Conclusion
This type of cancer is a very aggressive tumor followed by a dismisal prognosis. Multimodality therapy seems to be a reasonable approach but more studies are needed, to propose the most effective treatment.