Different types of benign or malignant cystic lesions can be observed in the pancreas. Pancreatic cystic lesions are classified under pathology terms into simple retention cysts, pseudocysts and cystic neoplasms. Mucinous cystic neoplasm is a frequent type of cystic neoplasm and has a malignant potential. Serous cystadenoma follows in frequency and is usually benign. Intraductal papillary mucin...

CONTEXT Pancreatic extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumors are extremely uncommon neoplasm. To the best of our knowledge, only eleven cases have been reported in the literature. All the case reports published mostly involve diagnoses made on surgical pathology. CASE REPORT A 40-year-old male patient presented with asthenia, mild abdominal pain, severe anemia and weight loss. Contrast-enhanced c...

Context Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm of the pancreas is an increasingly diagnosed neoplasm that rarely penetrates adjacent organs. Case report A sixty-year-old asymptomatic male was seen for evaluation of iron deficiency anemia. Patient was found to have a mucin secreting tumor during esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Computed tomography scan showed an enlarged pancreas with numerous focal...

The strategy for treating small borderline malignant pancreatic neoplasms--such as neuroendocrine tumor (NET) and solid pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN)--is surgical resection. However, pancreatic resection of these lesions still causes significant morbidity. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of EUS-guided ethanol ablation to treat small solid pancreatic neoplasms. A total of 8 patients with s...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to study the diagnostic efficacy of the percutaneous puncture of pancreatic tissue. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study was conducted on patients with suspicion of pancreatic neoplasm, and with a percutaneous biopsy of pancreatic tissue, from 2000 to 2011. For the statistical comparative analysis, the sample was stratified by tumour size: ≤...

Copyright: © 2012 Williamson JB, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Pancreatic cysts are being discovered with increasing frequency due to the expanding use of cross-sectional imaging. The ...

EUS-FNA of the pancreas is the preferred method of investigating and diagnosing pancreatic masses, both solid and cystic. Most solid tumors of the pancreas are conventional pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC). EUS-FNA has a variable sensitivity but high specificity in the preoperative diagnosis of pancreatic lesions, although the diagnosis for well differentiated PDAC is much more challeng...

Introduction: Typically found in young women, solid pseudopapillary tumors of the pancreas (SPTP) are part of the differential diagnosis for solid and cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. SPTP may cause diagnostic confusion when presenting with massive cystic degeneration. Case Report: A 59 year-old woman undergoing surveillance PET-CT was found to have a 9 cm, calcified, complex cyst arising in t...