Bone and brain metastases from ampullary adenocarcinoma.
Ampullary carcinoma is the second most common cancer of the peri-ampullary area after pancreatic carcinoma and metastasizes mostly intra-abdominally and to the liver. Extra-abdominal metastases are less frequent. In this report we describe the case of a patient with resected adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater who developed skeletal metastases in the lower extremity and brain metastases. We briefly discuss aspects of this comparatively rare gastrointestinal malignancy.
Voutsadakis
Ioannis A
IA
Division of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa 41110, Greece. ivoutsadakis@yahoo.com
Doumas
Stergios
S
Tsapakidis
Konstantinos
K
Papagianni
Maria
M
Papandreou
Christos N
CN
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D014670:Ampulla of Vater / Q000473:pathology*; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D003138:Common Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis