Open AccessIntractable nausea in a patient with synchronous pancreatic cancer and a fourth-ventricular ependymoma
Author(s) -
Varun Kumar Chowdhry,
David A. Carter,
Anna Shapiro
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.126474
Subject(s) - nausea , vomiting , medicine , ependymoma , pancreatic cancer , presentation (obstetrics) , disease , intervention (counseling) , cancer , oncology , radiology , psychiatry
Symptoms of nausea and vomiting can present a diagnostic challenge for physicians. In this article, we report a patient who was found to have synchronous presentation of an ependymoma and pancreatic cancer. This case illustrates some of the diagnostic challenges in patients with constitutional symptoms. Furthermore, it illustrates the importance of surgical intervention as both a diagnostic as well as a therapeutic measure when managing patients with presumed metastatic disease to the brain.