European Medical Journal Gastroenterology (Apr 2022)

Medullary Carcinoma of the Pancreas: Report of a Rare Pancreatic Malignancy and Review of Literature

  • Melissa Kyriakos Saad,
  • Evangelia Triantafyllou,
  • Domenico Papaleo,
  • Virginie Cahn,
  • Elias Saikaly,
  • Yann Martin Proske

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33590/emjgastroenterol/21-00140

Abstract

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Medullary carcinoma of the pancreas is an extremely rare malignant tumour. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, only 26 cases have been reported in the medical literature. A case of medullary carcinoma of the pancreas treated surgically by distal splenopancreatectomy is reported here.