Symptoma

Neoplasm of Ampulla of Vater

Subjects presented with 52 intestinal-type adenomas (low/high grade, 32:20) and 4 noninvasive pancreatobiliary papillary neoplasms (low/high grade, 1:3). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Furthermore, the local resection of ampullary NETs is technically difficult and presents significant morbidity [ 28, 29 ]. [pancreas.imedpub.com]

  • Plethora

    There are a plethora of terminologies that describe precursor lesions of the pancreatobiliary tract, ampulla of Vater, and gallbladder. The current terminologies for precursor lesions may make it difficult to understand the tumor biology. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Melena

    The 56-year-old male patient concerned visited our emergency room with melena that started one week prior to hospitalization. The patient was diagnosed to have a tumor in the ampulla of Vater with bleeding on its surface. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

    The silver colored stool is a combination of the white stool of obstructive jaundice combined with black stool of melena or bleeding. It was first described in the British Medical Journal by Dr. H. [en.wikipedia.org]

    Burke and Helwig in a review of 51 cases of GPs reported that the most common symptoms were: abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, melena, anemia, pyloric obstruction and obstruction of the bile duct [ 1 ]. [hoajonline.com]

    Six patients presented digestive signs: melena in three cases [5,8,9], jaundice in two cases [6,10], abdominal pain in one case and nausea in one case [8]. Three patients complained of weakness and fatigue and two of weight loss. [latunisiemedicale.com]

  • Hepatomegaly

    Hepatomegaly can occur. Rarely, patients present with features of acute pancreatitis or migratory thrombophlebitis. Palpable fixed epigastric masses or supraclavicular nodes are signs of advanced disease and inoperability. [oncology-articles.blogspot.com]

    […] either cause a continuous obstruction or an intermittent obstruction by a ball-valve mechanism thereby causing upper quadrant pain, jaundice and recurrent attacks of pancreatitis. 4 Icterus, evidence of scratch marks all over the body due to pruritus, hepatomegaly [bioline.org.br]

  • Confusion

    Not to be confused with the Duodenal cap also known as the duodenal ampulla, the first part of the duodenum. [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Historically, well-differentiated neuroendocrine neoplasms have been referred to as carcinoid tumors, a term which may cause confusion because clinically a carcinoid tumor is a serotonin producing tumor associated with functional manifestations of carcinoid [pancreas.imedpub.com]

We highlight such a case, and its diagnostic workup. Case Report: A 61 year old woman presented with painless obstructive jaundice of 2 months duration. MRI scan showed a stricture in the distal common bile duct suggestive of a neoplasm. [journals.sjp.ac.lk]

(ie, for staging purposes) Positron emission tomography (PET) or PET-CT scanning: PET or PET-CT scans can detect metastases that are too small to be reliably detected on a CT scan See Workup for more detail. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Diagnostic workup initially included abdominal computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen which demonstrated dilatation of the common bile duct. [hoajonline.com]

Choledocholithiasis Duodenal Ulcers Gallbladder Cancer Gallbladder Tumors Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatitis, Chronic Papillary Necrosis Papillary Tumors Other Problems to be Considered: Duodenal carcinoma Adenoma at the ampulla of Vater WORKUP [oncology-articles.blogspot.com]

  • Colitis

    Risk factors include having inflammation of the bile duct, ulcerative colitis, and some liver diseases. [icdlist.com]

  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Hepatocellular carcinoma arising from ectopic liver tissue should not be included in this category. [codes.iarc.fr]

    carcinoma Hepatoma C22.1 Intrahepatic bile duct carcinoma Cholangiocarcinoma C22.2 Hepatoblastoma C22.3 Angiosarcoma of liver Kupffer cell sarcoma C22.4 Other sarcomas of liver C22.7 Other specified carcinomas of liver C22.9 Liver, unspecified C23 Malignant [apps.who.int]

New guidelines to evaluate the response to treatment in solid tumors. European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer. National Cancer Institute of the United States. National Cancer Institute of Canada. ‎ [books.google.de]

Treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. [icdlist.com]

As with other gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors, biological treatment with octreotide analogues can be applied to symptomatic patients. Tumor-targeted radioactive therapy is a newly emerging treatment option. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Tumours that are less than 2 cm or limited to the ampulla appear to have a better prognosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Neuroendocrine tumors of the ampulla of Vater: presentation, pathology and prognosis. JOP 2012; 13:263-7. [PMID: 22572129] Relles D, Baek J, Witkiewicz A, Yeo CJ. [pancreas.imedpub.com]

Treatment and prognosis In general, ampullary tumors tend to show a better prognosis than do their biliary or periampullary counterparts as they can be detected at an earlier stage owing to earlier presentation due to biliary obstruction 3. [radiopaedia.org]

NET of the ampulla of Vater has a very similar prognosis to the prognosis of gastroenteropancreatic NET in general, with a 5-year survival rate of approximately 70 % [ 7 ]. [link.springer.com]

Prognosis better for ampullary carcinomas. [slideshare.net]

Certain conditions have both an underlying etiology and multiple body system manifestations due to the underlying etiology. [icd10coded.com]

Definition / general By definition, centered in ampulla of Vater, arises from ampullary intestinal mucosa If advanced, cannot distinguish tumor origin between ampulla, distal common bile duct or pancreas Etiology May arise from villous adenoma or villoglandular [pathologyoutlines.com]

Causes: The etiology of the disease is poorly understood. Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) have an increased risk of both benign and malignant ampullary tumors (Burke, 1999). [oncology-articles.blogspot.com]

METHODS: This retrospective comparative cohort study used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry from 1988 to 2009. OS was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier estimates and Cox proportional hazard regression. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Epidemiology,  Clinical manifestations,  Diagnosis and staging,  Treatment and prognosis. [slideshare.net]

One hundred years after "carcinoid": epidemiology of and prognostic factors for neuroendocrine tumors in 35, 825 cases in the United States. J Clin Oncol 2008; 26:3063-72. [PMID: 18565894] [pancreas.imedpub.com]

Epidemiology of cholangiocarcinoma: an update focusing on risk factors. Cancer Sci 2010; 101: 579-585 Bosetti C, Bertuccio P, Negri E, et al. Pancreatic cancer: overview of descriptive epidemiology. [sapd.es]

Between 1973 and 2005, 5,625 cases were recorded in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Discussion Abstracts by Overman et al. add to the growing body of evidence that ampullary carcinoma is a pathophysiologically diverse entity. [joplink.net]

Pathophysiology Periampullary carcinoma includes tumors arising in the head, neck, or uncinate process of the pancreas, tumors arising in the distal common bile duct, tumors arising in the duodenum, as well as tumors arising from the ampulla of Vater. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Pathophysiology: Ninety percent of ampullary tumors are adenocarcinomas. Neuroendocrine tumors, cystadenomas, and adenomas represent additional, but uncommon, histologic types. [oncology-articles.blogspot.com]

Because of its location, this cancer can cause obstruction of the common bile duct and prevent bile from flowing into the intestine and out of the body. [medicinenet.com]

[…] through the ampulla: the sphincter of the pancreatic duct, the sphincter of the bile duct, and the sphincter of Oddi. [ citation needed ] The sphincter of Oddi controls the introduction of bile and pancreatic secretions into the duodenum, as well as preventing [en.wikipedia.org]

Prevention A healthful diet, exercise, and avoiding smoking can all help prevent pancreatic cancer and many other diseases. There is no specific way to prevent pancreatic cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. [medicalnewstoday.com]

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We gave the patient routine supplementation with R alpha lipoic acid 150mg t.i.d. and benfotiamine 80mg b.i.d. to help prevent DCA side effects. Within 1 week, the patient’s fevers disappeared. [medicorcancer.com]