Pancreatitis as an unusual presentation of rhabdomyosarcoma.
The most common etiologies of acute pancreatitis in children are trauma, multi-system disease, drugs, infections, idiopathic and congenital anomalies of the pancreaticobiliary system. Acute pancreatitis is rarely associated with underlying childhood malignancies. We report a 12-year-old male with acute pancreatitis as the presenting symptom of an alveolar metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma.
De Pasquale
Maria Debora
MD
Pediatric Oncology Unit, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy. mdebora.depasquale@opbg.net
De Ioris
Maria Antonietta
MA
Serra
Annalisa
A
Pessolano
Rosanna
R
Donfrancesco
Alberto
A
De Sio
Luigi
L
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D018232:Rhabdomyosarcoma, Alveolar / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed