[Contribution of endoscopic ultrasound to the diagnosis of pancreatic metastases from renal carcinoma. Apropos of two cases]

Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007 Mar;30(3):110-3. doi: 10.1157/13100071.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Pancreatic metastases represent 2% of pancreatic tumors. The neoplasms most frequently metastasizing to the pancreas are breast, lung, melanoma and kidney tumors. We present the cases of two patients with pancreatic metastases from renal carcinoma diagnosed 4 and 8 years after the diagnosis and surgical treatment of the primary renal tumor. In both patients, endoscopic ultrasound was useful in the detection and characterization of these pancreatic lesions and allowed fine-needle aspiration for cytological study to be performed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy, Needle
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / secondary*
  • Endosonography*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Kidney Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nephrectomy
  • Pancreas / pathology
  • Pancreatectomy
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / surgery
  • Pancreaticoduodenectomy
  • Radiography, Abdominal
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed