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ArticleJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2025

Pulmonary Embolism in Long Standing Diabetes: A Hint Towards Pancreatic Carcinoma.

Anish K Shrestha, Christopher Haas

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Article in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Anish K ShresthaMedstar Health Internal Medicine Residency Program, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Christopher HaasGeorgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.

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Abstract

Pancreatic carcinoma has remained one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Cancer originating in the head of pancreas is often detected early in the disease due to biliary obstruction resulting in jaundice. In contrast, cancer of the pancreatic body and tail remains indolent, presenting late with significantly increased tumor burden and distant metastasis. Unfortunately, a single laboratory screening study is neither sensitive nor specific for early detection of pancreatic cancer. In this report, we present a patient with longstanding diabetes incidentally detected to have pancreatic tail carcinoma while presenting with pulmonary embolism, emphasizing the need for pancreatic cancer screening studies in population with longstanding diabetes.

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Anticoagulation failureCA19-9Pancreatic cancerPulmonary embolism

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