Primary pancreatic glomus tumor invading into the superior mesenteric vein: a case report.

Background: Glomus tumors are subcutaneous tumors arising from glomus bodies, thermoregulatory components of the skin. These tumors could occur in visceral organs where glomus bodies are not normally present. Herein, we report a case of primary pancreatic glomus tumor with aggressive direct invasion into the superior mesenteric vein (SMV).

[A Case Report of a Difficult to Diagnose, Extremely Well-Differentiated Stomach Adenocarcinoma Diagnosed by Biopsy].

A Japanese man in his 60s presented with complaints of epigastric pain and weight loss. A gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed multiple gastric ulcers and an irregular mound located on the wall of the lower gastric body along the greater curvature, which was suspected to be cancerous. A biopsy revealed that it was a Group 2 tumor even though the biopsy was repeated 4 times.

[A Case of Thymic Carcinoma of Postoperative Liver and Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastases Where Long-Term Survival Was Achieved through Multidisciplinary Treatment].

The patient was a 67-year-old man. At the age of 60, he underwent resection of thymic carcinoma with partial resection of the right upper lobe of the lung because of invasive thymic carcinoma. The pathological diagnosis was Masaoka stage Ⅲ squamous cell carcinoma.

[A Case of Esophageal Carcinoma with Large Intramural Metastasis to the Stomach].

We report a rare case of esophageal carcinoma with gastric wall metastasis. A 73-year-old man with dysphagia underwent endoscopy and upper GI series and chest-abdominal computed tomography, revealing esophageal carcinoma and gastric cancer, which was diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma by biopsy. The esophageal carcinoma was located in the lower thoracic esophagus(Lt).

[Two-Stage Radical Resection of a Case of Colon Cancer with Abdominal Wall Invasion and Cholangiocarcinoma].

A woman in her 50s was admitted to our hospital with fever and lower abdominal swelling. Abdominal CT/MRI examinations revealed irregular thickening of the transverse colon wall, which was attached to a subcutaneous abscess. An abdominal wall mass, a patent urachus, and a tumor in the 5th segment of the liver were also noted.