A case of needle tract seeding that seemed to be caused by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration

Masanari Sekine; Takeharu Asano; Risako Kurabayashi; Shimpei Maeda; Fumiaki Watanabe; Hiroshi Noda; Toshiki Rikiyama; Hirosato Mashima

doi:10.1002/ccr3.7043

A case of needle tract seeding that seemed to be caused by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration

Clin Case Rep. 2023 Mar 7;11(3):e7043. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.7043. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Authors

Masanari Sekine¹, Takeharu Asano¹, Risako Kurabayashi², Shimpei Maeda², Fumiaki Watanabe², Hiroshi Noda², Toshiki Rikiyama², Hirosato Mashima¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical Center Jichi Medical University Saitama Japan.
² Department of Surgery, Saitama Medical Center Jichi Medical University Saitama Japan.

Abstract

A 66-year-old man underwent a single endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) session and distal pancreatectomy for the pancreatic body adenocarcinoma measuring 12 mm in diameter. At 3 years after surgery, we diagnosed needle tract seeding (NTS) and performed total gastrectomy. NTS can occur with small tumors or after a single session of EUS-FNA.

Keywords: endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine‐needle aspiration; needle tract seeding; pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Publication types

Case Reports