A patient with obstructive jaundice due to pancreatic cancer might have all of the following clinical findings except
Correct Answer: Pain is early in the course of the disease
Description: Carcinoma pancreas Symptoms include unexplained episodes of pancreatitis, painless jaundice, nausea, vomiting, steatorrhoea and unexplained weight loss. With fuher spread beyond the pancreas, these patients may note upper abdominal or back pain when peripancreatic nerve plexuses are involved and ascites when carcinomatous is or poal vein occlusion develops Ref: Sabiston 20th edition Pgno :1544
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