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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2020; 41(05): 738-740
DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_102_19
Case Report and Review of Literature

Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma with Primary Tumor Calcification and Calcified Liver Metastasis: Report of a Rare Case and Review of Literature

Joydeep Ghosh
1   Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Sandip Ganguly
1   Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Deepak Dabkara
1   Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Bivas Biswas
1   Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Arghya Chatterjee
2   Department of Radiology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Sumit Mukhopadhyay
2   Department of Radiology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Sudeep Banerjee
4   Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Saugata Sen
2   Department of Radiology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Indu Arun
3   Department of Pathology, Tata Medical Center, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Abstract

Calcification is a feature of benign pancreatic diseases such as chronic calcific pancreatitis (CCP) or benign pancreatic tumors such as solid and papillary epithelial neoplasm of the pancreas and serous cystadenoma. The presence of calcification in a primary malignant pancreatic tumor is uncommon except for neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas. Calcification in adenocarcinoma of the pancreas involving the primary tumor as well as the metastasis resulting thereof is extremely rare in the absence of CCP. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a case of primary adenocarcinoma of the pancreas that presented with calcification of the primary tumor as well as the metastatic liver nodules, accompanied by hypercalcemia.

Keywords

Calcified metastasis - hypercalcemia - pancreatic adenocarcinoma


Publication History

Received: 21 April 2020

Accepted: 29 September 2020

Article published online:
17 May 2021

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