Fine-needle aspiration cytology of metastatic clear-cell renal carcinoma presenting as a solitary mass in the head of the pancreas.
In nearly 25% of patients with primary renal-cell carcinoma, metastasis is not uncommon and usually does not give rise to difficulties in diagnosis. However, its presentation as a mass in the head of the pancreas following an elapse of several years after the initial diagnosis of renal carcinoma is not only uncommon but may be confused clinicoradiologically with a primary pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The case presented here illustrates such an example with an emphasis on the usefulness of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis.
Gupta
R K
RK
Cytology Unit, Wellington Hospital and School of Medicine, New Zealand.
Lallu
S
S
Delahunt
B
B
D018262:Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed