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Author: LUCIDI Cristina Roma Italy
62y female patient with jaundice and increased transaminases/cholestasis, responsive to UDCA. Abdominal CT and MRI showed dilated VBP with papilla rat-tail narrowing and suspected material inside. Normal Ca 19-9 level. Histopathological examination confirmed a Signet ring cell carcinoma of the papilla.
The surgical specimen revealed a mixed neuroendocrine/non-neuroendocrine neoplasm (MiNEN) with large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) mixed with intestinal signet ring cell adenocarcinoma HGD. pT3aN0(i+) R0 HG (courtesy of Dr Graziano PERNAZZA)