Clinical Case Reports (Feb 2021)

A case of hypervascular tumors in the liver and pancreas: synchronous hepatocellular carcinoma and pancreatic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma 36 years after nephrectomy

  • Hajime Nakamura,
  • Shingo Tanaka,
  • Koji Miyanishi,
  • Yutaka Kawano,
  • Takahiro Osuga,
  • Kazuma Ishikawa,
  • Makoto Yoshida,
  • Hiroyuki Ohnuma,
  • Kazuyuki Murase,
  • Kohichi Takada,
  • Hiroshi Yamaguchi,
  • Minoru Nagayama,
  • Yasutoshi Kimura,
  • Ichiro Takemasa,
  • Junji Kato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3691
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 932 – 937

Abstract

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Abstract It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between multiple cancers and metastases using only diagnostic imaging, particularly when multiple hypervascular tumors are found in multiple organs. We present a case in which the preoperative histological evaluation was essential to determine the management of a hypervascular pancreatic tumor and liver tumor.

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