Pancreatic Metastasis Arising from a <i>BRAF</i> ^V600E -Positive Papillary Thyroid Cancer: The Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy and Response to Sorafenib Therapy

Abstract

PTC rarely metastasizes to the pancreas. In this patient, an FDG PET scan and EUS-guided biopsy played important roles in the diagnosis. PTC metastases to the pancreas usually occur in otherwise advanced disease. In the patient presented here, sorafenib may have slowed disease progression but the overall utility of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in pancreatic metastases from PTC is not clear.