TUMOURS PANCREATIC
CARCINOMA
Common
presenting features
CARCINOMA OF THE PANCREAS * Substantial weight loss
(about 80%)
Average age of
patients * Abdominal
pain(about 60%)
with
adenocarcinoma is * Obstructive jaundice,
sixty years. often without pain
(about
50%)
Ninty percent of Less common features
adenocarcinomas are from * Acute pancreatitis(15%)
the
exocrine secreting * Diabetes mellitus
ductal cells
of the (preceding for following
pancreas about
5% are carcinoma)
tumours of
acinenon * Gastric outlet
obstruction
exocrine cells, about 20% (due to external
are
tumours of the compression)
endocrine islet
cells * Thrombophlebitis
migrans
these manifest by secreting excess
hormones(insulin, glucogon or
gastrin)
Males are frequently affected
Cause is unknown
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