Hypervascular liver metastasis from hypovascular ductal cell carcinoma of the pancreas

In a case of hypervascular metastatic liver tumor, the vascularity of prima ry focus, pancreatic carcinoma was hypovascular. Based on the imaging findi ngs, we thought before the operation that the two lesions were double cance rs. Histological examination showed that the stromal volume of metastatic t umorous tissue was richer than that of the primary focus. It was suggested that the difference in the stromal volume was related to the difference of the vascularity, Some factors originating in stromal cells might be involve d in angiogenesis.