A case of isolated pancreatic metastasis of gastric cancer presenting problematic discrimination from gastropancreatic double cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 59, 2004, Pages 1571-1574

  Nakai, Takehiro ^a,b   Shimomura, Tomoo ^a   Nakai, Hiroaki ^a  

^a National Sengokusou Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Isolated pancreatic metastasis; Pancreaticoduodenectomy; Tumor marker

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DUPAN 2; ELASTASE; SIALYL LEWIS X ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STOMACH SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COLON; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 3343002918     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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