Undifferentiated carcinoma of the pancreas with osteoclast-like giant cells, a two cases report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Fine needle aspiration is the standard method for the pathological evaluation of pancreatic masses. In the following context, rare variants of such masses might present a challenge. Our goal is to describe the clinical, cytological, and histological findings of two cases of undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells (UCOCGC) a rare variant of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). CASE PRESENTATION: Two cases were identified. Cytological findings exhibit similarities between the two cases. One patient received multiple chemotherapy regimens and a surgery and recurred within three years of diagnosis, while the other succumbed to cholangitis resulting from hepatic metastases a year after their initial surgery. DISCUSSION: UCOCGC is a rare variant of pancreatic cancer, characterized by a unique cytological aspect. Recognizing this variant is essential considering its distinct prognosis compared to usual pancreatic adenocarcinoma. CONCLUSION: We presented two cases of UCOCGC a rare pancreatic cancer variant, exposing diagnostic particularities and clinical evolution.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".