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Case 19: Breast Cancer Metastatic to the Pancreas

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35-year-old woman with history of invasive ductal carcinoma was status post left radical mastectomy 2 years ago. She presented with acute abdominal pain and a serum lipase of 279 U/L (normal, 16–63 U/L).

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  1. The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Javad Azadi MD & Atif Zaheer MD

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  1. The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Atif Zaheer

  2. The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Elliot K. Fishman

  3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Meredith E. Pittman

  4. The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Department of Pathology , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Ralph H. Hruban

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Azadi, J., Zaheer, A. (2017). Case 19: Breast Cancer Metastatic to the Pancreas. In: Zaheer, A., Fishman, E., Pittman, M., Hruban, R. (eds) Pancreatic Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52680-5_19

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