Pancreatic metastases from renal cell carcinoma: a case report and literature review of the clinical and radiological characteristics

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Yoshiro Ogata¹  Kenji Kobayashi¹  Junji Furukawa¹  Masaru Kimata¹  Toshiaki Terauchi¹  Homare Ito¹  Yohei Masugi²  Yuki Kimura¹  Hiroharu Shinozaki¹  Yoshinori Hoshino¹ 

[1] Department of Surgery, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, 911-1 Takebayashi, Utsunomiya 321-0974, Japan;Department of Pathology, Keio University, School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Tokyo 165-8582, Japan

关键词: Radiological characteristics;    Imaging;    Renal cell carcinoma;    Surgery;    Pancreatic metastasis;   

Others  :  820954
DOI  :  10.1186/1477-7819-11-289

 received in 2013-05-29, accepted in 2013-10-25,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Metastatic pancreatic cancer is rare, accounting for approximately 2% of all pancreatic malignancies, and most cases arise from renal cell carcinoma. We report the case of a 63-year-old woman, who presented with a pancreatic tumor detected during her annual health examination. She had undergone left nephrectomy 13 years previously for renal cell carcinoma. Computed tomography (CT) revealed two tumors in the head and body of the pancreas, a hypervascular tumor and a hypovascular tumor with an enhanced rim, respectively. She underwent pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy, and metastatic pancreatic tumors arising from the kidney with clustered clear cell carcinoma immunohistochemically positive for CD10 were diagnosed. This report presents the different enhancement features of different lesions on CT scans. Because the enhancement features of lesions have been reported to vary according to the size of the metastatic tumor, a knowledge of the history of renal cell carcinoma is crucial for diagnosis.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Hoshino et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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