A case report on periampullary carcinoma

Author: 
Akhil Kumar Bavu., Akhil Aakunuri., Junaid Ahmed and Challam Venu

Periampullary carcinomas are rare forms of cancers that contribute approximately 6% of periampullary malignancies with an incidence of 2.9 cases for 10, 00,000 population and accounts for approximately 0.2% of GI tract cancers (1). Clinical presentations of pancreatic neoplasm were mainly pain, rapid loss of weight (unremittable), jaundice, nausea, lack of appetite, feeling of illness, and vomiting. Here we present a 61 years old male patient with complaints of upper abdominal pain, severe loss of weight with a known history of type 2 diabetes mellitus. He was proposed with all necessary investigations and diagnosed with periampullary carcinoma and advised for a surgery called Whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy. 

 

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6002-6005
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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/23956429.ijcmpr2021101062
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