title: [A case of apocrine adenocarcinoma suspected as an axillary lymph node metastasis from cecal cancer].
abstract: The patient was a 69-year-old male. He had a 2-year history of subcutaneous tumor in the left axilla. Biopsy of the tumor showed the features of metastatic adenocarcinoma. FDG PET to check the primary lesion revealed the collection of an ileocecal junction and left axilla. After CT scan and colonoscopy, we diagnosed cecal cancer and metastasis of the axillary lymph nodes from it. He underwent ileocecal resection and a wide local resection of the axillary tumor. Histopathological examination showed the axillary tumor was different from the cecal cancer. Axillary tumor was diagnosed not as metastasis of axillary lymph nodes from cecal cancer but apocrine adenocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases.
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogino
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noura
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohue
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishiguro
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kishi
authors.forename: Ko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takachi
authors.forename: Hidetoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eguchi
authors.forename: Terumasa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Miyashiro
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohigashi
authors.forename: Yo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: Shingi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Imaoka
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D000368:Aged; D001050:Apocrine Glands; D001365:Axilla; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary