title: Isolated pancreatic metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma after curative resection.
abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly malignant tumor and extrahepatic metastasis is not rare. The most common organ of HCC metastasis is lung, followed by bone and adrenal gland. To the best of our knowledge, isolated pancreatic metastasis of HCC that developed after curative resection has not been described previously. We report a case of solitary pancreatic metastasis of HCC, which was found 28 mo after left hemihepatectomy for HCC. The lesion was successfully resected with the pancreas, and no other metastatic lesions have been found in follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Sang Myung Woo, Joong-Won Park, Sung-Sik Han, Joon-Il Choi, Woo Jin Lee, Sang Jae Park, Eun Kyung Hong, Chang-Min Kim, Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center, 809 Madu 1-dong, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang, Gyeonggi 411-769, South Korea.
authors.forename: Sang Myung
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: Joong-Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Sung-Sik
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Joon-Il
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Woo Jin
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sang Jae
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Eun Kyung
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Chang-Min
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Kim