Treatment of Rare and Aggressive Pancreatic Carcinosarcoma.

摘要: A 42-year-old African American woman presented with 4 days of worsening midepigastric pain that radiated to her back. Computed tomography confirmed a diagnosis acute pancreatitis and revealed mass within the distal body tail pancreas. After an endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration yielding atypical cells suspicious for adenocarcinoma, patient underwent en bloc resection intra-abdominal subtotal pancreatectomy, splenectomy, left colectomy, partial adrenalectomy. Histopathologic examination findings, in addition immunohistochemical staining, pancreatic carcinosarcoma. Postoperatively, has undergone 20 cycles chemotherapy been transitioned comfort measures at 16 months postoperatively because progressive disease.