paragangliomas are tumors that originate from extra-adrenal medullary neural crest derivatives. they are rarely located in retroperitoneal space. these tumors are often discovered incidentally during imaging studies performed for other reasons.periampullary cancers include adenocarcinomas arising from the pancreas, ampulla of vater, duodenum or distal common bile duct. the exact site of origin ...

Patients with Gardner's syndrome are increasingly found to have polyps on routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and their risk of developing periampullary carcinoma is between 3-12%. We report a 45 year old man with Gardner's syndrome who presented with periampullary carcinoma 5 years after colectomy. Review of the literature amassed another 21 cases of periampullary carcinoma in patients w...

Periampullary carcinoma metastases are usually located at regional nodes, adjacent organs, liver or lung. On the other hand, metastatic penile cancer is uncommon. Penile metastasis usually originates from pelvic region with prostate and bladder being the most frequent primary location. We present a very rare case of periampullary carcinoma with penile metastasis in a 49-year-old man. He initial...

Incidence of periampullary carcinoma is low, approximately 0.5-2% of all gastrointestinal malignancies and 20% of all tumours of the extrahepatic biliary tree [1, 2, 3]. Peri-ampullary carcinoma arises around the confluence of the common bile duct with the main pancreatic duct and therefore may have a different anatomical origin: at the level of the pancreatic head (60% of the resected specimen...

RATIONALE Postliver transplant periampullary carcinoma is an extremely uncommon disease. PATIENT CONCERNS Cutaneous jaundice in a patient who had received a liver transplant 4 years earlier. DIAGNOSIS Periampullary carcinoma. INTERVENTIONS Radiofrequency ablation plus fully covered self-expanding metal stents (FCSEMS). OUTCOMES The treatment of malignant neoplasm of the ampulla of Vater...

INTRODUCTION Whipple's Pancreaticoduodenectomy has increasingly been used as an appropriate resectional procedure for tumors of the periampullary region which are pancreatic, periampullary, ampullary and biliary tumors. Our aim was to study the distribution and histopathologic features of these tumors and to examine local trends of periampullary neoplasms resected with a PD. METHODS A descrip...

CONTEXT Isolated tuberculosis of the ampulla of Vater has not yet been reported. The clinical features of isolated periampullary tuberculosis are at times similar to those seen in patients with periampullary carcinoma. Diagnosis is difficult, and biopsy and culture of the suspected lesion are often negative for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. CASE REPORT We herein describe one such case masquerad...

Periampullary tumors constitute a number of diverse neoplastic lesions located within 2 cm of the major duodenal papilla; among these, metastatic lesions account for only a small proportion of the periampullary tumors. To our knowledge, a metastatic periampullary tumor from hepatocellular carcinoma has never been reported. A 62-year-old male reported to our institute for fatigue and low hemoglo...