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Case Reports
. 2013 Sep 25;6(9):828-31.
eCollection 2013.

Metachronous pancreatic head ductal carcinoma three years after resection of gallbladder cancer

Dingwei Chen  1 , Jiafei Yan, Yiping Mou
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Case Reports

Metachronous pancreatic head ductal carcinoma three years after resection of gallbladder cancer

Dingwei Chen et al. Int J Clin Exp Med. .

Abstract

We report a rare case of female patient with metachronous gallbladder cancer and pancreatic head ductal carcinoma. At the age of 53 years, the patient underwent a cholecystectomy and resection of the liver bed for gallbladder cancer. The post-operation diagnosis was a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma with serosa involvement(T3N0M0, stage IIA). Three years later, an irregular and enhanced 2.4 cm mass in the pancreatic head with obviously pancreatic duct dilated was found by abdominal imaging. We considered it as pancreatic head cancer and performed pancreaticoduodenectomy. The histological diagnosis was a pancreatic ductal carcinoma (T2N0M0, stage I). No recurrence was found after thirty-three months follow up.

Keywords: Metachronous; gallbladder cancer; multiple primary cancers; pancreatic cancer.

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Figure 1
(He × 100): Histopathological finding of gallbladder cancer.
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Figure 2
Abdominal CT: low-density mass in the pancreatic head.
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Gross specimen of pancreaticoduodenectomy.
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Figure 4
(He × 200): Histopathological finding of pancreatic head ductal carcinoma.
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