Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2023)

A case of needle tract seeding that seemed to be caused by endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine‐needle aspiration

  • Masanari Sekine,
  • Takeharu Asano,
  • Risako Kurabayashi,
  • Shimpei Maeda,
  • Fumiaki Watanabe,
  • Hiroshi Noda,
  • Toshiki Rikiyama,
  • Hirosato Mashima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7043
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract A 66‐year‐old man underwent a single endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine‐needle aspiration (EUS‐FNA) session and distal pancreatectomy for the pancreatic body adenocarcinoma measuring 12 mm in diameter. At 3 years after surgery, we diagnosed needle tract seeding (NTS) and performed total gastrectomy. NTS can occur with small tumors or after a single session of EUS‐FNA.

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