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Synchronous Distal Pancreatic Metastatic Lesion Arising from Colonic Adenocarcinoma: Case Report and Literature Review
- Lowell Su, MD*⇑ and
- Jessica Wernberg, MD†
- *Surgical Resident, Department of General Surgery, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
- †Assistant Program Director, Department of General Surgery, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA Lowell Su, MD and Jessica Wernberg, MD
- Corresponding Author: Lowell Su, MD, Department of General Surgery Marshfield Clinic 1000 North Oak Avenue Marshfield, WI 54449, Tel: (715) 387-9222, Fax: (715) 389-4454, Email: su.lowell{at}marshfieldclinic.org
Abstract
Solitary metastatic pancreatic lesions comprise 0.5% to 3% of all pancreas neoplasms, most commonly arising from primary tumors of the kidney, lung, or colon. Synchronous metastatic pancreatic lesions are exceptionally rare. Only 25 cases of isolated colorectal pancreatic metastasis amenable to resection have been reported, 11 of those in the distal pancreas. To our knowledge we report the first case of a primary colonic malignancy with a synchronous distal pancreatic metastatic lesion treated with resection.
