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Rare case of pancreatic cancer with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis occurs very rarely in patients with pancreatic cancer. Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is characterized by multifocal seeding of the leptomeninges by malignant cells that originate from a solid tumor. To the best of our knowledge, brain metastasis from pancreatic cancer

Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis in a Patient with Pancreatic Cancer Responding to Nab-Paclitaxel plus Gemcitabine.

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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is an extremely rare, but devastating complication in pancreatic cancer patients with a poor prognosis despite multimodal treatment. We present a 51-year-old male patient with the very rare condition of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis originating from pancreatic cancer.

Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis as primary manifestation of pancreatic cancer.

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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) is a rare complication of cancer that often presents at an advanced stage after obvious metastasis of a primary cancer or locally advanced disease. We present an uncommon case of LMC secondary to pancreatic carcinoma presenting with headache, unilateral VII nerve

Epidural brain metastases in a patient with early onset pancreatic cancer: a case report and literature review.

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We present a case of early onset pancreatic cancer related extra-axial brain metastases. A 46-year-old Caucasian non-Jewish nonobese male with a history of PC diagnosed 3 months ago with metastases to the liver, omentum, malignant ascites, and a history of a pulmonary embolism was admitted to the

[Aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery--be careful with the diagnosis of a pancreatic tumor].

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METHODS A 42-year-old woman was admitted with blood pressure crisis. She complained of frontal headache. On clinical examination, a stenotic noise was found localized to the epigastrium. Some days earlier, a pancreatic "tumor" had been diagnosed sonographically by her general

Phase II evaluation of continuous-infusion 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, mitomycin-C, and oral dipyridamole in advanced measurable pancreatic cancer: a North Central Cancer Treatment Group Trial.

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At present there remains a need for more effective systemic therapy in advanced pancreatic cancer. Some studies have suggested that infusional chemotherapy schedules and biomodulation of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) may improve the therapeutic outcome in advanced colon cancer. One such regimen that uses

Case report: Long-term survival of a pancreatic cancer patient immunized with an SVN-2B peptide vaccine.

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A 62-year-old woman who underwent surgery to treat pancreatic cancer provided written, informed consent to undergo adjuvant therapy with gemcitabine, tegafur, and uracil. However, this was stopped after only 14 days due to Grade 4 neutropenia. She was then started on vaccine therapy with Survivin 2B

A Phase I-II Study Using Rexin-G Tumor-Targeted Retrovector Encoding a Dominant-Negative Cyclin G1 Inhibitor for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

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Rexin-G is a replication-incompetent retroviral vector displaying a cryptic SIG-binding peptide for targeting abnormal Signature (SIG) proteins in tumors and encoding a dominant-negative human cyclin G1 construct. Herein we report on the safety and antitumor activity of escalating

[A case of infected subdural hematoma accompanied by cerebral infarction].

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Infected subdural hematoma(ISH)is a rare disease caused by hematogenous infection of a preexisting subdural hematoma. We report a rare case of ISH accompanied by cerebral infarction. A 76-year-old man who had suffered a closed head injury 3 months before presented fever, headache and left

Hypoglycemia due to ectopic release of insulin from a paraganglioma.

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Insulin-secreting pancreatic tumors and insulin-like growth hormone-secreting non-islet cell tumors can cause hypoglycemia. However, insulin-releasing paraganglioma or pheochromocytoma has almost never been reported. A 67-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital because of headache,

[A rarely diagnosed paraneoplastic syndrome: cerebral venous thrombosis].

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Cerebral venous thromboses are uncommon in cancer, and rarely presents as a paraneoplastic syndrome. A 42-year-old patient presented with headache and a bilateral papillar edema. Cerebral computed tomographic (CT) scan did not find a tumoral process. Biological tests disclosed increased acute phase

Clinical case of the month. A 29-year-old man with acute onset blurry vision, weakness, and gait abnormality. Stroke.

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A 29-year-old man, with no significant past medical history, was in his usual state of health until the afternoon of admission. The patient was seated at work eating lunch when he suddenly noticed that his vision became blurry. He covered his right eye and had no visual difficulty but noted blurry

Meningitis revealing pancreatic carcinoma.

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Meningeal carcinomatosis is an uncommon metastatic complication of systemic solid tumors. The diagnosis is based on the presence of malignant cells in the cerebrospinal fluid. The sensibility of cerebrospinal fluid testing in detecting the neoplastic cells improves when repeating lumbar punctures.

Laparoscopic management of insulinoma in a child with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1.

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The diagnosis and surgical management of insulinomas associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) pose additional problems in children because of the long-term risk of recurrence of other pancreatic and non-pancreatic tumors. We report a diagnostic confirmation by laparoscopic

Feasibility study of adoptive immunotherapy for metastatic lung tumors using peptide-pulsed dendritic cell-activated killer (PDAK) cells.

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We have established a novel culture system to generate effector lymphocytes designated as peptide-pulsed dendritic cell-activated killer (PDAK) cells using cultured dendritic cells (DCs), synthetic peptide, peripheral blood lymphocytes, and interleukin-2 plus immobilized anti-CD3 antibody. A

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