| Visible pancreatic tail cancer with liver metastasis through abdominal transplenic scan |
daejin kim
, hanjun Ryu, Hyunsoo Kim, Changkeun Park, Jaekwon Jung, Jongmin Kim, Jeonghoon Song, Jaewon Lee |
| daegu fatima hospital, deagu, Korea |
| Address for Correspondence: |
daejin kim ,Tel: 821090934081, Fax: 82539547417, Email: cognex@naver.com
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Received: 12 February 2024; Accepted: 4 April 2024. Published online: 4 April 2024. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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Pancreatic cancer typically presents as a focal hypoechoic, hypovascular solid mass with irregular margins on ultrasound. Abdominal ultrasonography has challenges in detecting pancreatic tail diseases. A 75-year-old man visited with upper abdominal pain. We successfully visualized a pancreatic tail mass through an abdominal trans-splenic scan and multiple liver masses through an abdominal transverse scan. His diagnosis was confirmed as pancreatic tail cancer with liver metastasis following an endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle biopsy. The abdominal trans-splenic scan proves valuable for pancreatic tail disease, overcoming the limited utility of abdominal ultrasound in evaluating pancreatic tail masses due to the usual obscuration by bowel gas. |
| Keywords:
pancreatic cancer; pancreatic tail; spleen; ultrasound |
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