[Diagnosis of secondary tumors of the pancreas. Analysis of 13 cases].

The Authors report their experience of 13 cases of metastatic carcinoma of the pancreas, diagnosed over 350 pancreatic cancers examined by digestive angiography (4%). The rarity of this localization is emphasized and is affirmed that any organ may cause pancreatic metastasis (liver, bile ducts, oesofagus) although the kidney and the lung are more frequently the original sites. The pancreatic metastases were of different types but the multilocalized or the total forms don't prevail over the single ones. The angiographic modifications induced by these secondary lesions are evident but not characteristic and diagnosis only of pancreatic tumor can be evocated. Therefore digestive angiography is of high diagnostic value in this cases, although histologic examination is necessary to define the metastatic nature of these lesions.