title: Synchronous distal pancreatic metastatic lesion arising from colonic adenocarcinoma: case report and literature review.
abstract: Solitary metastatic pancreatic lesions comprise 0.5% to 3% of all pancreas neoplasms, most commonly arising from primary tumors of the kidney, lung, or colon. Synchronous metastatic pancreatic lesions are exceptionally rare. Only 25 cases of isolated colorectal pancreatic metastasis amenable to resection have been reported, 11 of those in the distal pancreas. To our knowledge we report the first case of a primary colonic malignancy with a synchronous distal pancreatic metastatic lesion treated with resection.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Resident, Department of General Surgery, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA su.lowell@marshfieldclinic.org.
authors.forename: Lowell
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Assistant Program Director, Department of General Surgery, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA Lowell Su, MD and Jessica Wernberg, MD.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wernberg
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery
keywords: Colonic neoplasm; Distal pancreatectomy; Pancreatic metastasis; Pancreatic neoplasm