Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Pancreas

Pierlesky Elion Ossibi; Issam Yazough; Amal Bennani; KarimIbn Majdoub; Imane Toughrai; Said Ait Laalim; Abdelmalek Ousadden; Laila Chbani; Khalid Mazaz; Khalid Ait Taleb

doi:10.4236/ss.2014.510075

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Surgical Science > Vol.5 No.10, October 2014

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Pancreas ()

Pierlesky Elion Ossibi^1*, Issam Yazough¹, Amal Bennani², KarimIbn Majdoub¹, Imane Toughrai¹, Said Ait Laalim¹, Abdelmalek Ousadden¹, Laila Chbani², Khalid Mazaz¹, Khalid Ait Taleb¹

¹Visceral Surgery Department, Hassan II University Hospital, Fez, Morocco.
²Anatomy and Pathological Cytology Department, Hassan II University Hospital, Fez, Morocco.

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Abstract

Exocrine pancreatic tumors are dominated by adenocarcinomas that have a poor prognosis. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the pancreas is rare. We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas in a 75-year-old patient admitted to the emergency ward with acute cholangitis.

Keywords

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Pancreas

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Ossibi, P. , Yazough, I. , Bennani, A. , Majdoub, K. , Toughrai, I. , Laalim, S. , Ousadden, A. , Chbani, L. , Mazaz, K. and Taleb, K. (2014) Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Pancreas. Surgical Science, 5, 487-489. doi: 10.4236/ss.2014.510075.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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