title: Transarterial chemoembolization for liver metastases from solid pseudopapillary epithelial neoplasm of pancreas: A case report.
abstract: Solid pseudo-papillary epithelial neoplasm (SPEN) is a rare epithelial tumor of pancreas with a low malignant potential occurs most commonly in young females. We report a case of 40 years old woman presented with extensive liver metastasis from SPEN of pancreatic body for which she was operated four years ago. Due to the extensive nature of metastatic disease she was offered Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) using gemcitabine as chemotherapeutic agent. Short term follow up after a month of TACE with multiphase computed tomography showed > 90% resolution in the viable tumor with significant clinical improvement. TACE ensures targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs in higher doses with least systemic toxicity and is more effective and safe than systemic chemotherapy. TACE with gemcitabine was found to be very effective in our patient with numerous liver metastasis.
authors.affiliation: TV Prasad, KS Madhusudhan, Deep N Srivastava, Arun K Gupta, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.affiliation: TV Prasad, KS Madhusudhan, Deep N Srivastava, Arun K Gupta, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Madhusudhan
authors.affiliation: TV Prasad, KS Madhusudhan, Deep N Srivastava, Arun K Gupta, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Deep N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.affiliation: TV Prasad, KS Madhusudhan, Deep N Srivastava, Arun K Gupta, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Nihar R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Dash
authors.affiliation: TV Prasad, KS Madhusudhan, Deep N Srivastava, Arun K Gupta, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Arun K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gupta
keywords: Gemcitabine; Liver metastases; Solid pseudopapillary epithelial neoplasm; Transarterial chemoembolization
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