Liver transplantation for multiple liver metastases from solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas.
Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas usually shows a benign clinical course. However, sometimes, distant metastasis may occur. Even in such case, the prognosis is good only if metastatic lesions are resected completely. We report the case of a 14-year-old girl with SPT of the pancreas and unresectable synchronous liver metastasis who underwent successful living donor liver transplantation. For 2 years, she has been disease free. This is the first report on transplantation to relieve liver metastasis of SPT.
Sumida
Wataru
W
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. wsumida@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Kaneko
Kenitiro
K
Tainaka
Takahisa
T
Ono
Yasuyuki
Y
Kiuchi
Tetsuya
T
Ando
Hisami
H
D000293:Adolescent; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006085:Graft Survival; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome