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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas producing granulocyte-colony stimulating factor: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas producing granulocyte-colony stimulating factor a case report Atsushi Nakajima1 Hirokazu Takahashi1 Masahiko Inamori 1 Yasunobu Abe1 Noritoshi Kobayashi1 Kensuke Kubota1 and Shoji Yamanaka2 Open Access Address Gastroenterology Division Yokohama City University Hospital 3-9 Fukuura Kanazawa-ku Yokohama 236-0004 Japan and 2Division of Pathology Yokohama City University Hospital Yokohama Japan Email Atsushi Nakajima - nakajima-tky@ Hirokazu Takahashi - hirokazu@ Masahiko Inamori - inamorim@ Yasunobu Abe - a0121@ Noritoshi Kobayashi - norikoba@ Kensuke Kubota - kubotak@ Shoji Yamanaka - inamorim@ Corresponding author Published 17 December 2008 Received 30 January 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 391 doi 1752-1947-2-391 Accepted 17 December 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 391 2008 Nakajima et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The granulocyte-colony stimulating factor-producing tumor was first reported in 1977 however anaplastic pleomorphic type carcinoma of the pancreas producing granulocytecolony stimulating factor is still rare. Case presentation A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with body weight loss -10 kg during months and upper abdominal pain from 3 weeks. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated a pancreatic tumor 10 cm in size and multiple low-density areas in the liver. On admission the peripheral leukocyte count was .