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ArticleCureus2025

Atypical Presentation of Pancreatic Cancer Mimicking IgG4-Related Disease.

Yazan Sallam, Mir Zulqarnain, Anas Al-Sadi, Chase Branstetter, Ashir Mir

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yazan SallamInternal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, USA.
Mir ZulqarnainGastroenterology, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, USA.
Anas Al-SadiInternal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, USA.
Chase BranstetterInternal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, USA.
Ashir MirInternal Medicine, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic cancer often presents with vague, nonspecific symptoms such as painless jaundice, weight loss, and fatigue. Imaging can be diagnostic in pancreatic cancer. However, in rare cases, pancreatic cancer may present without a detectable mass, mimicking conditions like autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). Supraclavicular lymph node metastasis, commonly associated with breast, lung, gastric, and esophageal cancers, is rarely reported in cases of pancreatic cancer. Even more unusual is the finding of an isolated Virchow's node in such cases. Here, we present a unique case of pancreatic adenocarcinoma characterized by an isolated, enlarged left supraclavicular lymph node without any clear evidence of a pancreatic mass on imaging.

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autoimmune pancreatitis mimickermalignant pancreatic cancermassless pancreatic cancerpancreatic metastasissupraclavicular lymph node

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PMID40520838
PMCPMC12162384

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