Pancreatic panniculitis in a patient with an acinar cell cystadenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
We describe a 60-year-old man with pancreatic panniculitis associated with arthritis and peripheral eosinophilia in whom the skin symptoms led to a diagnosis of an underlying acinar cell cystadenocarcinoma. The panniculitis involved initially the legs, but soon thereafter lesions developed on the trunk and upper extremities. In the literature, only 5 cases of pancreatic acinar cell cystadenocarcinoma have been reported, none of these in association with panniculitis.
Beltraminelli
H S
HS
Department of Dermatology, University of Basel, Kantonsspital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. hbeltraminelli@uhbs.ch
Buechner
S A
SA
Häusermann
P
P
D018267:Carcinoma, Acinar Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003536:Cystadenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015434:Panniculitis / Q000209:etiology*