Needle tract seeding following endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for pancreatic cancer: a report of two cases

Matsui, Toshiki; Nishikawa, Kenichiro; Yukimoto, Hiroki; Katsuta, Koji; Nakamura, Yoshihumi; Tanaka, Shota; Oiwa, Michiaki; Nakahashi, Hiroki; Shomi, Yuta; Haruki, Yuji; Taniguchi, Kentaro; Shimomura, Makoto; Isaji, Shuji

doi:10.1186/s12957-019-1681-x

Table 1 Reported cases of needle tract seeding after EUS-FNA for pancreatic tumor

From: Needle tract seeding following endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for pancreatic cancer: a report of two cases

Author		Year	Age	Sex	Location of pancreatic cancer	Tumor size	Frequency of puncture	EUS needle	Initial treatment	Stage	Discovery opportunity	Time to recurrence (months)	Recurrence tumor size	Treatment for needle tract seeding
1	Hirooka	2003	57	Male	Pancreatic body	20 mm	3	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy and partial gastrectomy	T1N0M0	Operative findings	1	Micro	Partial gastrectomy
2	Paquin	2005	65	Male	pancreatic tail	22 mm	5	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T1N0M0	CT	21	50 mm	Chemotherapy
3	Ahmed	2011	79	Male	Pancreatic body	Unknown	Several times	Unknown	Central pancreatectomy	T2N0M0	PET-CT	39	45 mm	Total gastrectomy
4	Chong	2011	55	Female	Pancreatic tail	27 mm	3	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T2N0M0	PET-CT	26	40 mm	No indication of surgery
5	Katanuma	2012	68	Female	Pancreatic body	20 mm	4	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T2N0M0	EGDS	22	Unknown	Unknown
6	Anderson	2013	51	Male	Pancreatic head	50 mm	Unknown	Unknown	Chemoradiation therapy	Unknown	EGDS/EUS-FNA	Unknown	10 mm	Unknown
7	Ngamruengphong	2013	66	Male	Pancreatic body/tail	Unknown	3	22 and 19 G	Subtotal pancreatectomy	Unknown	EGDS/EUS	27	Unknown	Unknown
8	Ngamruengphong	2013	77	Female	Pancreatic tail	40 mm	3	19 G	Distal pancreatectomy and partial gastrectomy	Unknown	EGD	26	Unknown	Unknown
9	Sakurada	2015	87	Female	Pancreatic body	25 mm	Unknown	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T2N0M0	Elevation of CA19-9	19	20 mm	Partial gastrectomy
10	Minaga	2015	64	Female	Pancreatic body	20 mm	3	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T3N0M0	Elevation of CA19-9	8	12 mm	Partial gastrectomy
11	Tomonari	2015	78	Male	Pancreatic body	20 mm	2	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T3N0M0	EGDS	28	32 mm	Subtotal gastrectomy
12	Kita	2016	68	Female	Pancreatic body	Unknown	2	22 G	Intensity-modulated radiation therapy	Unknown	PET-CT	4	Unknown	Unknown
13	Yamabe	2016	75	Male	Unknown	30 mm	Unknown	25 G	Chemotherapy	Unknown	CT/EUS-FNA	3	24 mm	Chemotherapy
14	Minaga	2016	72	Male	Pancreatic body	10 mm	Unknown	Unknown	Distal pancreatectomy	T1N0M0	EGDs/EUS	24	30 mm	Gastrectomy
15	Iida	2016	78	Female	Unknown	Unknown	3	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T3N0M0	EGDS/PET-CT	6	18 mm	Distal gastrectomy
16	Yamauchi	2016	67	Female	Pancreatic body	25 mm	1	19 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T3N0M0	EGDS/EUS-FNA	23	28 mm	Partial gastrectomy
17	Sakamoto	2018	50	Male	Pancreatic tail	38 mm	2	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy	T4N1M0	EGDS	24	20 mm	Partial gastrectomy
18	Matsumoto	2018	50	Male	Pancreatic body	35 mm	3	21 G	Distal pancreatectomy and partial gastrectomy	Unknown	CT/EUS	8	Unknown	Partial gastrectomy
19	Our case 1	2019	68	Female	Pancreatic body	15 mm	4	22, 19, 20, and 20 G	Distal pancreatectomy and partial gastrectomy	T1N1M0	Operative findings	1	Micro	Partial gastrectomy
20	Our case 2	2019	70	Male	Pancreatic body	34 mm	1	22 G	Distal pancreatectomy and partial gastrectomy	T3N0M1	Operative findings	4	Micro	Partial gastrectomy

Abbreviations: CT computed tomography, PET-CT positron emission tomography computed tomography, EGDS esophagogastroduodenoscopy, EUS endoscopic ultrasound, EUS-FNA endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration

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