Disseminated metastatic cutaneous melanoma to pancreas and upper gastrointestinal tract diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound: an unusual case.
There is a wide variety of pancreatic neoplasms identified, but the great majority of them are of primary origin. Metastatic disease in the pancreatic parenchyma is quite rare (2-5% of pancreatic malignancies) and most often is quite difficult to differentiate from other primary lesions. Most of the imaging studies fail to give certain discriminating features for metastatic pancreatic neoplasms, contrary to endoscopic ultrasound and tissue sampling, which can provide an accurate diagnosis. In this report, we present a case of a male middle aged man who was admitted to our hospital with painless jaundice and finally was diagnosed with a cutaneous scalp melanoma dispersedly metastasized to the pancreas and upper gastrointestinal tract (stomach and duodenum).
['Voudoukis|Evangelos|E|', 'Mpitouli|Afroditi|A|', 'Giannakopoulou|Konstantina|K|', 'Velegraki|Magdalini|M|', 'Datseri|Galateia|G|', 'Bachlitzanaki|Maria|M|', 'Kazamias|Georgios|G|', 'Fahouridi|Anthi|A|', 'Mastorakis|Emmanouil|E|', 'Vardas|Emmanouil|E|', 'Kontopodis|Emmanouil|E|', 'Paspatis|Gregorios|G|']
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols D001932:Brain Neoplasms D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde D016371:Cranial Irradiation D004379:Duodenal Neoplasms D061765:Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System D019160:Endosonography D006801:Humans D007093:Imidazoles D008175:Lung Neoplasms D008297:Male D008545:Melanoma D008875:Middle Aged D010091:Oximes D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms D011728:Pyridones D011744:Pyrimidinones D012878:Skin Neoplasms D013274:Stomach Neoplasms D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Endoscopic ultrasound Endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle biopsy Pancreatic metastatic melanoma