Skip to main content
Fig. 3 | BMC Gastroenterology

Fig. 3

From: 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

Fig. 3

Pathological findings of the resected tumor. a Macroscopic image of the resected gastric tumor showed a white hard tumor. b Columnar epithelium with atypical nuclei spread in the gastric wall while forming a ductal structure (arrows). These were similar to the histological findings of the previously resected pancreatic cancer. c Adenocarcinoma was mainly located from the subserosa to the muscularis propria in the gastric wall, with invasion in the submucosa (within dotted line). d An enlargement within the square of (c). The mucosal layer was preserved. e No. 3 lymph node metastasis was observed in the adenocarcinoma (arrows). f Primary pancreatic cancer. From these pathological findings, the submucosal tumor in the gastric wall was diagnosed as arising from needle tract seeding derived from pancreatic cancer

Back to article page