title: Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma metastasizing to the pancreas in pregnancy.
abstract: Acute abdomen in pregnancy can present difficulties in both diagnosis and treatment. In this patient the presentation of an acute abdomen was due to some intraperitoneal hemorrhage complicating a pancreatic metastasis from a primary dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma arising from the right iliac bone. Neither the primary nor the secondary growths had been suspected previously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mikhail
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Lim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000473:pathology; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology*