Distant peritoneal metastasis to a mesh-plug prosthesis in a gastrointestinal cancer patient: report of a case.

Abstract

A case of distant metastasis to mesh-plug prosthesis in gastrointestinal cancer is presented herein. An 88-year-old man had received mesh-plug repair with high ligation for a recurrence of a right inguinal hernia. Six months later, advanced gastric cancer and advanced transverse colon cancer were detected, and therefore a distal gastrectomy and partial colectomy were performed. Two weeks after the operation, the patient complained of right groin tenderness, and the mesh-plug prosthesis was removed to control any infection. A histopathological investigation demonstrated adenocarcinoma in the plug prosthesis. The patient died of carcinomatosis peritonei 45 days after the last operation.

• Authors: Masato Imai, Yukifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Masuko, Kuniaki Okada, Shohei Osawa, Hiroyuki Ishizu, Yasunori Nishida, Tsunetake Hata, Kazuhito Uemura, Masaya Kina, Shohei Honda, Gentaro Ishiyama, Toru Takahashi, Atsushi Hino
• Journal: Surgery today (Surg Today) Vol. 33 Issue 11 Pg. 864-6 ( 2003) ISSN: 0941-1291 [Print] Japan
• PMID: 14605960 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adenocarcinoma (pathology, secondary, surgery)
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Biopsy, Needle
• Fatal Outcome
• Gastrectomy
• Gastrointestinal Neoplasms (pathology, surgery)
• Hernia, Inguinal (pathology, surgery)
• Humans
• Immunohistochemistry
• Male
• Neoplasm Seeding
• Peritoneal Neoplasms (pathology, secondary, surgery)
• Reoperation
• Surgical Mesh