Figure 1.

A 70-year-old male patient of pancreatic cancer accompanied with spermatic cord metastasis and inguinal hernia. A. Color Doppler ultrasound indicates a mixed echo mass in the right inguinal area. B. The resected mass. C. The postoperative pathological examination showed adenocarcinoma infiltrates the spermatic cord (HE, ×40). The red arrows indicate adenocarcinoma cells. D. The black arrows indicate villin (+) detected by immunohistochemical analysis (×100)."

Figure 2.

Enhanced CT scan showing a mass in the body and tail of the pancreas (A, B red triangle) with liver metastases (B, red arrow) and ascites (B, red star)."

Table 1

Clinical data of 12 cases with spermatic cord metastasis of pancreatic cancer"