Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28347353›Full record

ArticleJournal of medical case reports2017

Two synchronous malignant tumors of the pancreas: a case report.

W S L De Silva, A A Pathirana, I Prematilleke, S A P D Rajapakse, P S H Hettiarachchi, D S Manawasinghe, B K Dassanayake

Open access · goldAbstract readCase Reports
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of medical case reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

W S L De SilvaPost Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. supun85@gmail.com.
A A PathiranaDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
I PrematillekeDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
S A P D RajapakseDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
P S H HettiarachchiDepartment of Radiology, Asiri Surgical Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
D S ManawasinghePost Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
B K DassanayakePost Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
University of Colombo · LKUniversity of Sri Jayewardenepura · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOnly a limited number of multiple synchronous primary malignancies of the pancreas have been reported in the medical literature. We report a case of two solid malignant tumors of the pancreas diagnosed preoperatively. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 65-year-old Sri Lankan woman who presented with progressive obstructive jaundice. Initial contrast-enhanced computed tomography imaging detected a malignant tumor at the tail of her pancreas. A second tumor of the pancreatic head was detected with integrated imaging using multidetector computed tomography and multimodal magnetic resonance imaging. She underwent total pancreaticoduodenectomy and splenectomy. Gross examination of the specimen confirmed the presence of two separate tumors. Histology of the ampullary tumor showed pancreatic-type adenocarcinoma and the tumor in the tail of her pancreas showed a colloid-type adenocarcinoma.

conclusionThe possibility of multiple primary malignant solid tumors of different types with malignant potential has to be considered even without background pathology when managing multiple tumors in the pancreas.

Indexed as

PancreaticoduodenectomySplenectomyAgedFemaleHumansJaundice, ObstructiveMultimodal ImagingNeoplasms, Multiple PrimaryPancreasPancreatic NeoplasmsTreatment OutcomeAmpullary carcinomaSynchronous primary pancreatic carcinomaTotal pancreaticoduodenectomy

Identifiers

PMID28347353
PMCPMC5368926
OpenAlexW2592828848

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.