Needle tract seeding recurrence of pancreatic cancer in the gastric wall with paragastric lymph node metastasis after endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration followed by pancreatectomy: a case report and literature review.
Nami SatoShigetsugu TakanoHideyuki YoshitomiKatsunori FurukawaTsukasa TakayashikiSatoshi KubokiDaisuke SuzukiNozomu SakaiShingo KagawaTakashi MishimaEri NakadaiRintaro MikataNaoya KatoMasayuki OhtsukaPublished in: BMC gastroenterology (2020)
It is important to pay careful attention to the development of needle tract seeding in patients with pancreatic cancer diagnosed by EUS-FNA. This is the first case of needle tract seeding with lymph node metastasis, highlighting the need for caution and providing novel insight in the postoperative follow-up of patients with pancreatic body/tail cancer.