Pancreatic malignancies can be divided into endocrine and exocrine processes. Of the
exocrine malignancies, ductal carcinoma is the most common and can be further subclassified
into adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous and squamous cell carcinoma. Squamous cell carcinoma
of the pancreas is extremely rare with most of its literature presented in the form
of case reports. We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas with
an atypical presentation.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 18, 2017
Accepted:
January 30,
2017
Received in revised form:
January 20,
2017
Received:
December 11,
2016
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☆The authors have no financial or other conflicts of interest to disclose.
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