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Pancreatic ampullary carcinoma with neck metastases: a case report
Murat Aksoy1, Aziz Sumer, Serkan Sari
1Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. maksoy@hotmail.com
Background:
An 18-year-old Turkish woman was referred with a 6-week history of rapidly enlarging cervical mass at the left side.
Case Report:
She was diagnosed of ampullary carcinoma for which pancreatoduodenectomy was performed 14 months ago. In our patient with a history of malignancy, a rapidly enlarging neck mass was considered a metastasis to the neck. Tumor resection was performed. Histopathological examination revealed the metastasis of the precedent ampullary adenocarcinoma.
Conclusion:
Surgery does not improve survival for advanced metastatic ampullary cancer however, it can be mandatory in specific conditions as our patient.
