Open AccessMetastatic islet cell carcinoma: A potentially treatable cause of “carcinoma of unknown origin”
Author(s) -
Weitberg Alan B.,
Weitzman Sigmund A.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.33.3.167
Subject(s) - islet , medicine , histopathological examination , carcinoma , chemotherapy , pathology , metastatic carcinoma , oncology , clear cell carcinoma , metastasis , pancreas , cancer , insulin
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.”