Invasive pancreatic cancer presenting as gastrointestinal hemorrhage--a case report.
Upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage is not uncommonly seen by the surgical practitioner. We present a case of a patient who presented with melena and syncope, who was subsequently found to have invasive metastatic pancreatic cancer as his source of bleed.
Vaughan
Aislinn
A
Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220, USA. joy_rusche@trihealth.com
Lohr
JoAnn
J
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