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Is Pancreatic Mass always Adenocarcinoma?

Abstract

Faisal Musa*, Fahd Mousi, Lohini Sundharkrishnan and Daniel Landau

57-year-old man with past medical history of diabetes, hypertension and depression who was evaluated for obstructive jaundice, and was found on CT scan of abdomen to have a hypoenhancing 2.6 x 2.1 cm mass within the posterior and medial aspect of the pancreatic head which abutted the common bile duct and superior pancreatic duodenal branch from the common hepatic artery highly suspicious for pancreatic adenocarcinoma.