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A Preclinical Murine Model of Hepatic Metastases
Published on: September 27, 2014
Liver transplantation for multiple liver metastases from solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas
Wataru Sumida1, Kenitiro Kaneko, Takahisa Tainaka
1Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. wsumida@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas usually shows a benign clinical course. However, sometimes, distant metastasis may occur. Even in such case, the prognosis is good only if metastatic lesions are resected completely. We report the case of a 14-year-old girl with SPT of the pancreas and unresectable synchronous liver metastasis who underwent successful living donor liver transplantation. For 2 years, she has been disease free. This is the first report on transplantation to relieve liver metastasis of SPT.

