Abstract

HERNANZ RUIZ, Nerea; TELLEZ VILLAJOS, Luis; FERRE ARACIL, Carlos  and  MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Javier. Metastasis-induced aAcute pancreatitis as the initial presentation of a small cell lung carcinoma. rev.colomb.cancerol. [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.1, pp.37-39. ISSN 0123-9015.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rccan.2015.09.002.

Metastases of different any origin that induceare a rare cause of acute pancreatitis are not frequent. We report the case 5 of a patient with an acute pancreatitis episode as the initial manifestation of an extended small cell lung carcinoma. The exclusion of malignancy in cases of pancreatitis of unknown origin is clinically relevant to improve the prognosis of these patients. We review the A literature review on about this topic is also presented.

Keywords : Acute Pancreatitis; Pancreatic metastases; Small cell lung carcinoma.

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