Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Patient with Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumour: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50364#.VDsy1VfHRK0 Author(s) Rhian Sian Davies 1* , Toby Wells 2 , Sarah Gwynne 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Clinical Oncology, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, UK . 2 Department of Radiology, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, UK . ABSTRACT A 67-year-old female patient presented with weight loss, diarrhoea and thrombocytopaenia of unknown aetiology. A computerised tomography (CT) scan demonstrated a mass in the head of the pancreas with liver metastases. A liver biopsy demonstrated a well-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma. She was commenced on a somatostatin analogue. Three months later she presented with spontaneous bleeding. Blood test demonstrated resu...