Distant peritoneal metastasis to a mesh-plug prosthesis in a gastrointestinal cancer patient: report of a case.
A case of distant metastasis to mesh-plug prosthesis in gastrointestinal cancer is presented herein. An 88-year-old man had received mesh-plug repair with high ligation for a recurrence of a right inguinal hernia. Six months later, advanced gastric cancer and advanced transverse colon cancer were detected, and therefore a distal gastrectomy and partial colectomy were performed. Two weeks after the operation, the patient complained of right groin tenderness, and the mesh-plug prosthesis was removed to control any infection. A histopathological investigation demonstrated adenocarcinoma in the plug prosthesis. The patient died of carcinomatosis peritonei 45 days after the last operation.
Imai
Masato
M
Department of Surgery, Sapporo Kosei General Hospital, K 3, H 8-5, Chuo-ku, 060-0033 Sapporo, Japan.
Kondo
Yukifumi
Y
Masuko
Hiroyuki
H
Okada
Kuniaki
K
Osawa
Shohei
S
Ishizu
Hiroyuki
H
Nishida
Yasunori
Y
Hata
Tsunetake
T
Uemura
Kazuhito
K
Kina
Masaya
M
Honda
Shohei
S
Ishiyama
Gentaro
G
Takahashi
Toru
T
Hino
Atsushi
A
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005743:Gastrectomy; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D013526:Surgical Mesh