tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Abdominal angina due to recurrence of cancer of the papilla of Vater: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Abdominal angina due to recurrence of cancer of the papilla of Vater: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Abdominal angina due to recurrence of cancer of the papilla of Vater a case report Marco Biolato1 Maria Letizia Gabrieli1 Antonello Parente1 Simona Racco1 Melania Costantini2 Lorenzo Bonomo2 Gian Ludovico Rapaccini1 Giovanni Gasbarrini1 and Antonio Grieco 1 Address Department of Internal Medicine Catholic University of Rome 8 Largo A Gemelli 00168 Rome Italy and 2Department of Radiology Institute of Internal Medicine Catholic University of Rome 8 Largo A Gemelli 00168 Rome Italy Email Marco Biolato - marcobiolato@ Maria Letizia Gabrieli - letigabri@ Antonello Parente - aparente73@ Simona Racco - simonaracco@ Melania Costantini - mcostantini@ Lorenzo Bonomo - lbonomo@ Gian Ludovico Rapaccini - rapaccini@ Giovanni Gasbarrini - ggasbarrini@ Antonio Grieco - agrieco@ Corresponding author Published 2 December 2009 Received 21 October 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 9314 doi l752-l947-3-93l4 Accepted 2 December 2009 This article is available from http content 3 l 93 14 2009 Biolato 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 Abdominal angina is usually caused by atherosclerotic disease and other causes are considered uncommon. This is the first report of a case of abdominal angina secondary to neoplastic vascular stenosis caused by local recurrence of an adenocarcinoma of the papilla of Vater. Case presentation An 80-year-old woman of Caucasian origin presented with abdominal pain and diarrhea. She had undergone a pancreaticoduodenectomy for adenocarcinoma of the papilla of Vater .