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FRANK F. BUSTEED, M.D.; EDWARD B. SPEIR, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;74(5):703-708.

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Carcinoma of the pancreatic islet cells remains a very unusual tumor. There are few reports of attempted resection. The case report which follows concerns a 37-year-old white man who has remained well for two years and three months after resection of the stomach and pancreaticoduodenectomy for a nonfunctioning metastasizing islet-cell carcinoma of the pancreas with associated jejunal ulceration.

Report of Case

A 37-year-old white male farmer was admitted to the hospital in August, 1954, with complaints of itching skin and pain in the upper abdomen. One year previously a subtotal gastrectomy and gastrojejunostomy were done for an ulcer in the first part of the duodenum. His convalescence was without incident, and he remained well for a period of about eight months. He then began having burning epigastric pain, and shortly thereafter a marginal ulcer was demonstrated by x-ray examination. Jaundice was first noted two months before admission, and about the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Seattle

Former Resident in Pathology, Providence Hospital (Dr. Busteed).

Footnotes
Read at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Cincinnati, Nov. 29, 1956.

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