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Pancreatic somatostatin-secreting gangliocytic paraganglioma with lymph node metastases
1Department of Pathology, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin USA.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
Gangliocytic paraganglioma (GPG) with local lymph node metastasis was found in the pancreas of a 74-yr-old female who presented with diarrhea, steatorrhea, vomiting, nausea, and abdominal pain. A Whipple procedure led to a complete resolution of these symptoms and a return of an elevated stomatostatin level to normal. This is the first description of GPG in this location and the first endocrinologically active GPG.