Anaplastic Carcinoma of the Pancreas Appearing with Low Back Pain due to Epidural Spinal Cord Compression: a Case Report
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چکیده
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most important health conditions that can affect humans with physical and psychosocial changes. Non-specific LBP, defined as self-limiting whose exact cause cannot be determined, common among older adults. Lumbar disk herniation should first diagnosis comes to mind in 40–60-year-old patients clinical findings radiculopathy LBP. However, order not miss causes such malignancy patient’s history deepened, a examination performed carefully. We present case 53-year-old female patient who applied our clinic LBP accompanied by was diagnosed anaplastic carcinoma pancreas (APC) biopsy taken from lesion sacral region detected advanced imaging. APC rare cancer, survival time quite short due its rapid spread resistance chemotherapy radiotherapy. Based on this case, clinicians evaluate detail carefully, perform further imaging when necessary, discuss musculoskeletal radiologists there are diagnostic problems, which will reduce possibility overlooking underlying serious
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عنوان ژورنال: SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2523-8973']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-022-01241-x