Erschienen in:
06.12.2019 | Case Report
Colloid Carcinoma of Pancreas in the Setting of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm (IPMN)
verfasst von:
Thejus Jayakrishnan, Dhwani Pandya, Dulabh Monga
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
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Ausgabe 2/2020
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Excerpt
Pancreatic cancer is the ninth most common cancer in women and the tenth most common cancer in men. It is the fourth leading cause of cancer death accounting for 7% of all cancer deaths [
1]. The common subtypes of pancreatic cancers are the pancreatic adenocarcinomas and pancreatic endocrine tumors. The colloid carcinoma or mucinous non-cystic neoplasm is a rare subtype of pancreatic adenocarcinoma that account for 1–3% of malignant pancreatic exocrine neoplasms with an incidence of only a few cases per million individual per year [
2]. …