Pancreatic glucagonoma presenting as a pulmonary mass.
Glucagonoma is an uncommon disease, a neuroendocrine tumour that develops from glucagon-producing pancreatic cells. They are usually slow-growing, but generally advanced at diagnosis, and metastatic disease is virtually incurable. Liver is the most common site of metastatic disease. We present the case of a 48-year-old man with a glucagonoma being diagnosed from a pulmonary mass. This case had no liver affection in the whole evolution of the disease, and showed a particularly aggressive course, with very little response to all therapies administered, and a survival from diagnosis of just 16 months.
Pinto Marín
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Medical Oncology Department, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain. alvaro_pinto_marin@hotmail.com
Hernández Agudo
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Feliú
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González Barón
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D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005935:Glucagonoma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed