Is there a link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease aspects and pancreatic cancer? Results of a case-matched study.

Background And Aims: An association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has been previously suggested. This study aims at investigating this association and at identifying potential links between variables of the NAFLD spectrum and PDAC.

Methods: A cross-sectional case-matched analytical and comparative study was carried out to analyze patients undergoing surgical resection of PDAC and compare them to a control group of individuals undergoing cholecystectomy at a public tertiary teaching hospital, matched by sex, age and BMI.

Solitary pancreatic metastasis from breast cancer: case report and review of literature.

Context: Pancreatic metastases from primary malignant tumors at other sites are rare, constituting about 2% of the neoplasms that affect the pancreas. Pancreatic metastasis from breast cancer is extremely rare and difficult to diagnose, because its clinical and radiological presentation is similar to that of a primary pancreatic tumor.

Case Report: A 64-year-old female developed a lesion in the pancreatic tail 24 months after neoadjuvant therapy, surgery and adjuvant radiation therapy for right-side breast cancer (ductal carcinoma).

MANAGEMENT OF PANCREATICOPLEURAL FISTULAS SECONDARY TO CHRONIC PANCREATITIS.

Introduction: Pancreaticopleural fistula is a rare complication of chronic pancreatitis.

Objective: To describe pancreaticopleural fistula due to chronic pancreatitis and perform an extensive review of literature on this topic.

Methods: Comprehensive narrative review through online research on the databases Medline and Lilacs for articles published over the last 20 years.

Gastric mesenchymal tumors as incidental findings during Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

Background: Occurrences of mesenchymal tumors have been more recognized in recent years, and the incidental diagnosis of these lesions during bariatric surgery has been previously reported.

Objective: To describe the cases of incidentally diagnosed mesenchymal tumors during consecutive bariatric surgeries.

Setting: Private health-providing service, Brazil.

Mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinoma of the gastric stump following Billroth II gastrectomy: case report and review of the literature.

Context: Gastric stump cancer after gastric resection is a well-known disease. It may be a newly developed cancer after resection due to benign disease, or recurrent or residual disease after oncological surgery. The predominant histological type is usually adenocarcinoma.