Case Report

Pancreatic ampullary carcinoma with neck metastases: a case report

Murat Aksoy¹ , Aziz Sumer² , Serkan Sari¹ , Ozgur Mete³ , Artur Salmaslioglu⁴ and Yesim Erbil¹

¹  Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey

²  Department of General Surgery, Kas State Hospital, Antalya, Turkey

³  Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey

⁴  Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey

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Cases Journal 2009, 2:146doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-146

Published:	1 October 2009

Abstract

Background

An 18-year-old Turkish woman was referred with a 6-week history of rapidly enlarging cervical mass at the left side.

Case report

She was diagnosed of ampullary carcinoma for which pancreatoduodenectomy was performed 14 months ago. In our patient with a history of malignancy, a rapidly enlarging neck mass was considered a metastasis to the neck. Tumor resection was performed. Histopathological examination revealed the metastasis of the precedent ampullary adenocarcinoma.

Conclusion

Surgery does not improve survival for advanced metastatic ampullary cancer however, it can be mandatory in specific conditions as our patient.