1 Jan 2001Case Report
CYSTIC PANCREATIC METASTASIS FROM A LUNG CARCINOMA. CASE REPORT.
Maurizio Iaria 1Lucia Raso 1R. Sànchez 2C.P. Plaza 3M.A. Muñoz 3J. Santoyo 3F.J. Lara 3J.L. Aguilar 3M. Hernandez 3J.A. Navarro 3A. Perucho 3
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Article Info
1 I Clinica Chirurgica. Policlinico Universitario, Messina
2 Servizio di Chirurgia Toracica dello stesso Centro
3 Servizio di Chirurgia Generale e Apparato Digestivo Ospedale Regionale Universitario “Càrlos Haya”, Malaga (Spagna)
Ann. Ital. Chir., 2001, 72(1), 95-100;
Published: 1 Jan 2001
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Abstract
We report the case of a patient with a metachronous cystic pancreatic metastasis from an undifferentiated large cell lung carcinoma two years after the primary tumor had been surgically removed. Clinically, he presented with epigastric pain, fever, weakness and anorexia. The patient was operated and a palliative cystogastrostomy was performed after an intraoperative biopsy had been informed as positive for carcinoma. Six months later the patient died. Pancreatic metastases from lung carcinoma are found in aproximately 7-9% of patients deceased of this neoplasm. Clinical and radiological fndings simulate primary pancreatic tumors, being epigastric pain, jaundice and upper digestive bleeding the most frequent symptoms. They represent stages of advanced systemic disseminated tumoral disease, and because of this reason total or partial surgical curative resections will only be performed in a few cases of patients with isolated metastasis, criteria of resectability and without evidence of extended disease to other organs or systems. In the most of the cases, the treatment will only be palliative, even medical or surgical.
Keywords
- Cystic pancreatic metastasis
- Bronchogenic carcinoma