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A woman with chronic pulmonary disease was immunized with polyvalent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. She developed a keratoacanthoma at the injection site. Such an occurrence would seem to be a rare complication of pneumococcal vaccination

Carcinomas of the pancreas with giant cells are not rare, but those containing osteoclast-like tumor cells are quite unusual. This report documents a pancreatic neoplasm comprising both easily recognizable well-differentiated adenocarcinoma and osteoclast-like tumor. The literature on the 'osteoclastoma' of the pancreas is reviewed. Evidence for its epithelial deviation is supported strongly by the present case