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Case Reports
. 1987 Mar;32(3):327-31.
doi: 10.1007/BF01297062.

Acute pancreatitis as presenting symptom and sole manifestation of small cell lung carcinoma

Case Reports

Acute pancreatitis as presenting symptom and sole manifestation of small cell lung carcinoma

A Noseda et al. Dig Dis Sci. 1987 Mar.

Abstract

A 58-year-old man with no sign of pulmonary disease and a normal chest x-ray presented with acute pancreatitis resistant to conventional medical management and a mass in the head of the pancreas. The presumptive diagnosis was pancreatic cancer with tumor-induced pancreatitis. However, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography suggested metastatic rather than primary tumor, so that an extrapancreatic primary was actively sought. Further lung work-up demonstrated a small cell carcinoma of the lung. This case indicates that metastasis-induced acute pancreatitis can be the presenting symptom and sole manifestation of lung cancer.

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