Ryutaro Udo, Masanobu Enomoto, Kazushige Tsurui, Yuu Kuboyama, Hiroshi Kuwabara, Masatoshi Shigoka, Tetsuo Ishizaki, Kenji Katsumata, Hiyo Obikane, Akihiko Tsuchida
There is a clear consensus regarding the combined resection of organs with cancer invasion, patients with colon cancer. However, there are very few reports to our knowledge regarding the use of pancreato-duodenectomy(PD)for colon cancer patients with cancer invasion in the duodenum. We here report a colon cancer patient in whom we performed PD and right hemicolectomy, who showed favorable results with no recurrence. The patient was a 69-year-old woman. Her chief complaint was hypogastric pain. Her previous doctor performed colonoscopy and a colonoscopic biopsy, and detected a type 2 lesion, throughout the entire circumference of the transverse colon near the liver, and she was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma...
April 2018: Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer & Chemotherapy