TY - JOUR
T1 - Metastatic islet cell carcinoma
T2 - A potentially treatable cause of “carcinoma of unknown origin”
AU - Weitberg, Alan B.
AU - Weitzman, Sigmund A.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - A 55‐year‐old woman presented with diplopia secondary to an orbital mass. Physical examination showed a large ovarian mass. Further evaluation revealed these lesions to be metastases from a nonfunctioning pancreatic islet cell carcinoma, the first such case reported. Since these tumors can be responsive to chemotherapy, it is important to consider islet cell cancers in patients presenting with “metastatic carcinoma of unknown origin.”
AB - A 55‐year‐old woman presented with diplopia secondary to an orbital mass. Physical examination showed a large ovarian mass. Further evaluation revealed these lesions to be metastases from a nonfunctioning pancreatic islet cell carcinoma, the first such case reported. Since these tumors can be responsive to chemotherapy, it is important to consider islet cell cancers in patients presenting with “metastatic carcinoma of unknown origin.”
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U2 - 10.3322/canjclin.33.3.167
DO - 10.3322/canjclin.33.3.167
M3 - Article
C2 - 6301656
AN - SCOPUS:0020597315
SN - 0007-9235
VL - 33
SP - 167
EP - 171
JO - CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
JF - CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
IS - 3
ER -
