title: Single pancreatic metastasis from a previously resected carcinoma of the cecum: a case report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a case of an isolated pancreatic metastasis from a primary cecum carcinoma.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Carcinoma of the colon and rectum commonly metastasizes to distant sites such as liver, lung, bone, brain, and ovaries. Only a few cases of pancreatic metastasis from a primary colonic carcinoma had been reported. Metastasic lesions to the pancreas are found only in 3% to 12% of autopsies from advanced malignancies. Primary tumors that commonly metastasize to the pancreas are lung and kidney. Most of the patients with metastatic lesions to pancreas also had extrapancreatic metastatic disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of a 86-year-old woman with a single pancreatic metastasis from a primary cecum carcinoma resected 8 months before.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The finding of an isolated metastasis to the pancreatic body from a primary cecum adenocarcinoma is extremely rare.
authors.affiliation: Surgery Departament, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torres-Villalobos
authors.forename: Eitan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Podgaetz
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Anthon
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Remes-Troche
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Robles-Diaz
authors.forename: Carlos C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Nuñez
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002432:Cecum / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography