Question 265 · LEK · Pancreatic cancer
Indicate true statement(s) regarding pancreatic adenocarcinoma:
1) it usually derives from acinic cell of the pancreas;
2) Whipple surgery is the method of choice for resection of the head of the pancreas;
3) migrating phlebohtrombosis may develop in the course of the disease;
4) it can stem from the intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas (IPMN);
5) the Courvoisier symptom is characteristic of cancer of the body of the pancreas.
The correct answer is:
2) Whipple surgery is the method of choice for resection of the head of the pancreas;
3) migrating phlebohtrombosis may develop in the course of the disease;
4) it can stem from the intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas (IPMN);
5) the Courvoisier symptom is characteristic of cancer of the body of the pancreas.
The correct answer is:
- A. 1,2,4.
- B. 2,5.
- C. 2,3,4.
- D. 1,3,4,5.
- E. 2 only.
Hint
Consider which cells most pancreatic adenocarcinomas arise from and where a tumour must lie to cause painless jaundice with a palpable gallbladder.
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