Abstract

Simultaneous surgical management of a patient with distal pancreatic cancer, gastric gastrointestinal tumors (GIST) and hepatic hemangioma Introduction: The occurrence of gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) associated to pancrea- tic adenocarcinoma has been reported in 0.2% pancreatic cancers. There are no published reports on distal pancreatic adenocarcinoma associated to gastric antral GIST and the surgical management of this clinical condition. Case report: Herein, we discuss a 75 years-old female patient who was admitted to our institution with upper digestive hemorrhage. The endoscopy showed large, superficial erosions over the cardia and on the posterior wall of the antrum a rounded sub-mucosal non-eroded lesion suspected of gastric GIST. An ab- dominal computed tomography scan found a hepatic hemangioma on the left hepatic lobe. In the pancreatic distal body and tail a solid exophytic lesion was identified. In the gastric antrum a rounded submucosal tumor in close contact with the pancreatic lesion was found. The patient was subjected to distal pancreatectomy, splenectomy, and distal gastrectomy. The biopsy identified a well-differentiated ductal adenocarcinoma locali - zed in the pancreatic tail and the proximal part of the body, resected with negative margins. The gastric tumor was positive for CD117, CD34, and DOG-1; it had a positive Ki67 in less than 2%, and 2 or less mitoses per 50 high-power fields. Conclusion. This uncommon case illustrates the occurrence of synchronous tumors of different cellular origins incidentally diagnosed and their simultaneous surgical treatment. The individual incidence of these tumors is low and if associated they probably will continue to be found incidentally.

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