Nihon Rinsho Geka Gakkai Zasshi (Journal of Japan Surgical Association)
Online ISSN : 1882-5133
Print ISSN : 1345-2843
ISSN-L : 1345-2843
A CASE OF SOLITARY SPLENIC METASTASIS FROM UTERINE CERVICAL CANCER
Kazunori NOJIRIYasuhiko NAGANOKenichi MATSUOHideyuki IKEToshio IMADAHiroshi SHIMADA
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2005 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages 712-715

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A 54-year-old woman, who had received chemo-radiation therapy for unresectable uterine cervical cancer with a complete response 8 months earlier was found to have a tumor 6cm in diameter in the spleen by an abdominal ultrasonography (US). Abdominal CT scan revealed a low density mass with a relatively homogeneous center. Magnetic resonance imaging scan showed a low intensity mass on both TI and T2 weighted images. Enhanced US revealed a splenic tumor with peripheral enhancement. Positoron emission tomography (PET) with 2-deoxy-2 [18F] fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) revealed a focal area of increased uptake of radioactivity in the splenic area, but there were no other abnormal areas of increased uptake in the whole body. We diagnosed this tumor as a solitary metastatic splenic tumor, and performed a splenectomy. The histopathologic findings indicated squamous cell carcinoma, which was compatible with splenic metastasis. Only 7 operated cases of solitary splenic metastasis from uterine cervical cancer have been reported.
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