title: Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas: a case report.
abstract: Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare variant of pancreatic exocrine carcinoma. We report a case of 70 year old man who came to our hospital with abdominal pain, anorexia and jaundice. Imaging of the abdomen showed a mass in the region of the head of the pancreas. Histological evaluation of the pancreatic tumor showed an adenosquamous carcinoma which was extensively infiltrative with perineural invasion, involvement of peripancreatic lymph nodes and all the thickness of the duodenum wall. The tumor exhibited a biphasic malignant growth identified as well to moderate differentiated adenocarcinoma and well to poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, "Tzaneion" General Hospital of Piraeus, Zanni & Afentouli 1, Piraeus-Greece. evelinaskafida@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Evangelia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Skafida
authors.forename: Xanthippi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Grammatoglou
authors.forename: Chryssoula
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Glava
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zissis
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Paschalidis
authors.forename: Eleftheria
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Katsamagkou
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Firfiris
authors.forename: Thivi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vasilakaki