Catherine O’Connor
Catherine O’Connor

@CatherineaOC

25 Tweets 4 reads Jul 31, 2023
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35yo 👱🏽‍♀️ develops abdominal pain
😖 Pain worse after meals
✂️ PCP referred for cholecystectomy
😖 Persists after ✂️
🩻 CT: mass adjacent to second portion of duodenum and tail of the pancreas
🤔 What would you do?
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💡DOTATATE PET scan 2 images: mild fullness in panc body, ❌significant somatostatin receptor activity
Remember
😎Spleen: physiologically ☀️ brightest organ
BUT
⛅️corona may obscure adjacent uptake
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🧪Labs
🔸Gastrin (fasting & ❌PPI) <100pg/mL
🔸Glucagon (concurrent nml glucose) <80pg/mL
🔸VIP <75pg/mL
🔸Insulin 20mcIU/mL (ULN=25)
🔸C-peptide 3ng/mL (ULN=4.4)
⬆️ CgA (❌PPI) 2296ng/mL (ULN=103)
🔸24h urine 5HIAA 7mg/day (ULN=15)
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🏥Operative findings:
➡️Explor lap: no evidence of carcinomatosis
➡️Doppler US: 9 bilobar hepatic lesions
🔑Dopp US: Suspect pancreas tail mass➡️same characteristics as NML parenchyma
🔑Stomach/SB palpated x2➡️❌ evidence of tumor

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