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Late focal pancreatic metastasis of renal cell carcinoma
M Sahin1, A A Foulis, F W Poon
1Department of Surgery, University of Inonu, Turgut Ozal Medical Centre, Malatya, Turkey.
Digestive Surgery
|December 9, 1998
Abstract:
Metastatic carcinoma to the pancreas is uncommon. Pancreatic metastasis from a renal cell carcinoma is exceptional, but may occur many years after the initial diagnosis and treatment of the primary tumor. Presentation of our patient mimicked a head of the pancreas carcinoma so well that it was only after the resectional phase of a Whipple operation that the diagnosis of metastatic renal carcinoma was made 18 years after left nephrectomy. The patient is alive and well 18 months after surgery, having gained weight.