Open AccessBone and brain metastases from ampullary adenocarcinoma
Author(s) -
Ioannis A. Voutsadakis,
Stergios Doumas,
Konstantinos Tsapakidis,
Maria Papagianni,
Christos N. Papandreou
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.15.2665
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , adenocarcinoma , ampulla of vater , cancer , ampulla , carcinoma , pathology , radiology
Ampullary carcinoma is the second most common cancer of the peri-ampullary area after pancreatic carcinoma and metastasizes mostly intra-abdominally and to the liver. Extra-abdominal metastases are less frequent. In this report we describe the case of a patient with resected adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater who developed skeletal metastases in the lower extremity and brain metastases. We briefly discuss aspects of this comparatively rare gastrointestinal malignancy.