A case of hypervascular tumors in the liver and pancreas: synchronous hepatocellular carcinoma and pancreatic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma 36 years after nephrectomy

Hajime Nakamura; Shingo Tanaka; Koji Miyanishi; Yutaka Kawano; Takahiro Osuga; Kazuma Ishikawa; Makoto Yoshida; Hiroyuki Ohnuma; Kazuyuki Murase; Kohichi Takada; Hiroshi Yamaguchi; Minoru Nagayama; Yasutoshi Kimura; Ichiro Takemasa; Junji Kato

doi:10.1002/ccr3.3691

A case of hypervascular tumors in the liver and pancreas: synchronous hepatocellular carcinoma and pancreatic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma 36 years after nephrectomy

Clin Case Rep. 2020 Dec 25;9(2):932-937. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.3691. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Oncology Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine Sapporo Japan.
² Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Medicine Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine Sapporo Japan.
³ Department of Gastroenterology Health Sciences University of Hokkaido Hospital Sapporo Japan.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Science Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine Sapporo Japan.

Abstract

It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between multiple cancers and metastases using only diagnostic imaging, particularly when multiple hypervascular tumors are found in multiple organs. We present a case in which the preoperative histological evaluation was essential to determine the management of a hypervascular pancreatic tumor and liver tumor.

Keywords: EUS‐FNA; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Metastatic pancreatic carcinoma; Renal cell carcinoma.

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Case Reports