ప్యాంక్రియాటిక్ డిజార్డర్స్ & థెరపీ
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నైరూప్య

మెటాస్టాటిక్ ప్యాంక్రియాటిక్ ఎక్సోక్రైన్ క్యాన్సర్‌లో దీర్ఘకాలిక ప్రతిస్పందన: అసాధారణత లేదా డయాగ్నస్టిక్ మిస్? సంక్షిప్త సాహిత్య సమీక్షతో ఒక కేసు నివేదిక

ఫేబుల్ జుస్టోవిచ్

Pancreatic exocrine cancer (PEC) is a challenging disease with a very low of curability rate, even when disease is at early stage and surgically treated, with dismal 5-years survival rates. Advanced disease is always a fatal disease and case of long lasting survivors are very few and doubts on the faithfulness of the diagnosis are more than justifiable. There are some benign illness that can mimic radio-logically and clinically an advance pancreatic cancer? We describe a case of clinically and radio-logically advanced pancreatic cancer who had non diagnostic fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) with a long lasting remission after a short course of therapy with gemcitabine. The atypical outcome after systemic therapy and doubts on reliability of the clinical diagnosis carry us to review literature in search of similar cases, under the point of view of positive outcome and misleading clinical presentation.