[Primary pancreatic sarcoma with liver metastases: is there a place for radical surgery?]

Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2010 Mar;34(3):227-30. doi: 10.1016/j.gcb.2009.09.007. Epub 2010 Feb 4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Pancreatic leiomyosarcomas are a rare neoplasm that accounts for 1/1000 of pancreatic cancers. In the literature, 23 cases of pancreatic leiomyosarcoma have been reported and the majority being diagnosed on autopsy. It has never been reported any radical curative surgery in presence of synchronous hepatic metastasis. We reported a case of a patient affected by a primitive pancreatic leiomyosarcoma with bilobar hepatic metastasis, who underwent distal splenopancreatectomy associated with the resection of multiple liver metastases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Catheter Ablation / methods
  • Female
  • Hepatectomy* / methods
  • Humans
  • Leiomyosarcoma / secondary
  • Leiomyosarcoma / surgery*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Pancreatectomy* / methods
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Splenectomy* / methods
  • Treatment Outcome