| Literature DB >> 19496199 |
Ioannis A Voutsadakis1, Stergios Doumas, Konstantinos Tsapakidis, Maria Papagianni, Christos N Papandreou.
Abstract
Ampullary carcinoma is the second most common cancer of the peri-ampullary area after pancreatic carcinoma and metastasizes mostly intra-abdominally and to the liver. Extra-abdominal metastases are less frequent. In this report we describe the case of a patient with resected adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater who developed skeletal metastases in the lower extremity and brain metastases. We briefly discuss aspects of this comparatively rare gastrointestinal malignancy.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19496199 PMCID: PMC2691500 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.2665
Source DB: PubMed Journal: World J Gastroenterol ISSN: 1007-9327 Impact factor: 5.742