[Three Resected Cases of Metachronous Pancreatic Cancer Successfully Treated with Repeated Pancreatectomy]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2015 Nov;42(12):2346-8.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Repeated pancreatectomy for metachronous pancreatic cancer has rarely been reported. We report 3 cases with metachronous pancreatic ductal carcinoma that developed after pancreatectomy for the first pancreatic cancer. They were successfully resected by removal of the remnant pancreas. In all 3 cases, the cancers in the remnant pancreas were treated with repeated pancreatectomy. The histological margin of the first pancreatic resection was cancer-free in all the cases. Furthermore, the second cancer tissue contained carcinoma lesions in situ adjacent to invasive ductal carcinoma. Based on these findings, the 3 patients were diagnosed with metachronous pancreatic cancers.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biopsy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pancreatectomy
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Recurrence