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Yagi S, Takahashi M, Tsuji T, Yanagibashi S, Higashihara T, Ohtsuka H, Hayashi T, Takuma K, Morita Y, Nakazono A, Okada H, Ohtsuka M. Two cases of colorectal liver metastasis with residual liver recurrence after a long recurrence-free survival period. Surg Case Rep 2023; 9:202. [PMID: 37987931 PMCID: PMC10663427 DOI: 10.1186/s40792-023-01779-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The rate of residual liver recurrence after the resection of colorectal liver metastases is high, and most cases recur within 5 years of the initial hepatectomy. Here, we report two cases of residual liver recurrence after radical resection of colorectal liver metastases after a long recurrence-free survival period. CASE PRESENTATION Case 1 involved a 62-year-old woman treated for ascending colon cancer in April 2011 who underwent right hepatectomy for synchronous colorectal liver metastasis in April 2012. However, in September 2021, computed tomography revealed residual recurrence in the lateral segment of the liver, and a lateral segmentectomy of the liver was performed. In Case 2, a 52-year-old man treated for cecal cancer in July 2002 underwent lateral segmentectomy of the liver for metachronous colorectal liver metastasis in October 2006. Subsequently, there was no recurrence; however, computed tomography showed residual liver recurrence in the right lobe of the liver in October 2021, and an expanded posterior hepatic segmentectomy was performed. Histopathological findings in both cases were consistent with colorectal liver metastases. CONCLUSIONS We encountered two cases in which residual liver recurrence was observed after a long period of recurrence-free survival. Although rare, there have been a few cases of late recurrence of liver metastases after radical resection of cancer liver metastases.
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- Shotaro Yagi
- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
- Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan.
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, 2-8-29, Musashidai Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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Yonenaga Y, Yokoyama S. Isolated liver metastasis detected 11 years after the curative resection of rectal cancer: A case report. World J Clin Cases 2021; 9:8923-8931. [PMID: 34734076 PMCID: PMC8546816 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i29.8923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The duration of surveillance after curative resection of colorectal cancer (CRC) is generally 5 years. The overall incidence of recurrence more than 5 years after surgery for CRC in Japan has been reported to be 0.6%. Moreover, it is rare for CRC to have metachronous liver metastasis more than 10 years after surgery. Here, we present a case of liver metastasis detected 11 years after the curative resection of rectal cancer.
CASE SUMMARY A 72-year-old man was referred to our hospital after a liver tumor was detected by abdominal ultrasonography at another hospital. He had undergone surgery for rectal cancer 11 years previously. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) showed a tumor with a diameter of approximately 8 cm in the posterior segment, which was weakly and gradually enhanced. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/CT showed an abnormally high uptake on the tumorous lesion, which showed that the tumor appeared to spread convexly along the intrahepatic bile ducts. Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma was therefore diagnosed, and he had an extended right posterior sectionectomy and regional lymph node dissection. Histopathological examination showed that the tumor was a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma and showed the same pathological characteristics as the rectal cancer. Immunohistological examination showed that the cancer cells of both the liver tumor and rectal cancer were positive for cytokeratin (CK) 20 and weakly positive for CK 7. These findings were consistent with the liver metastasis from the rectal cancer.
CONCLUSION It is possible that a liver tumor is metastatic in a patient with a previous history of CRC, even if it was more than 10 years earlier.
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- Yoshikuni Yonenaga
- Department of Surgery, Ako City Hospital, Ako 678-0232, Hyogo, Japan
- Department of Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama 640-8558, Wakayama, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama 640-8558, Wakayama, Japan
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Frontali A, Benichou B, Valcea I, Maggiori L, Prost À la Denise J, Panis Y. Is follow-up still mandatory more than 5 years after surgery for colorectal cancer? Updates Surg 2019; 72:55-60. [PMID: 31515690 DOI: 10.1007/s13304-019-00678-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess if to prolong follow-up (FU) more than 5 years after surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) is justified or not. METHODS Patients who underwent surgery for a CRC before 2013 and without any tumor recurrence (or synchronous metastases) during the first 5 years after surgery were identified from our database and included. RESULTS Between 1996 and 2012, 121 patients operated for rectal (RC) (median of FU of 84 months; range 60-211) and 97 with colonic cancer (CC) (median of FU of 78 months; range 60-139), without any tumor recurrence (or synchronous metastases) during the first 5 years after surgery, presented a late tumor recurrence: 13/121 RC (10.7%) versus 2/97 CC (2.1%) (p = 0.014); 8/13 recurrences in RC (61.5%) were observed after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy, and 9/13 (69.2%) in pN0 tumors. Among the 13 recurrences, 3 had both local and metastatic recurrences (23%), 5 an isolated local recurrence (38.5%) and 5 an isolated metastatic recurrence (38.5%). After surgery for CC, the 2 recurrences were observed in patients with T3N0 tumors. CONCLUSION After surgery for a CRC, in patients without tumor recurrence during the first 5 years after surgery, follow-up after 5 years must be continued in rectal cancer patients because of a 10.7% rate of late recurrence. On the opposite, after surgery for colon cancer the 2% rate of late recurrence after 5 years suggested that only patients with pT3-T4 colonic cancer could probably be followed more than 5 years after surgery.
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- Alice Frontali
- Service de Chirurgie Colorectale, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Hôpital Beaujon-Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris VII (Denis Diderot), 100 boulevard du Général Leclerc, Clichy, 92110, France
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- Service de Chirurgie Colorectale, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Hôpital Beaujon-Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris VII (Denis Diderot), 100 boulevard du Général Leclerc, Clichy, 92110, France
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- Service de Chirurgie Colorectale, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Hôpital Beaujon-Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris VII (Denis Diderot), 100 boulevard du Général Leclerc, Clichy, 92110, France
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- Service de Chirurgie Colorectale, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Hôpital Beaujon-Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris VII (Denis Diderot), 100 boulevard du Général Leclerc, Clichy, 92110, France
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- Service de Chirurgie Colorectale, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Hôpital Beaujon-Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris VII (Denis Diderot), 100 boulevard du Général Leclerc, Clichy, 92110, France
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- Service de Chirurgie Colorectale, Pôle des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Hôpital Beaujon-Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris VII (Denis Diderot), 100 boulevard du Général Leclerc, Clichy, 92110, France.
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