the aim of this study was to determine the prognosis and survival for patients with borderlineovarian tumor (bot). a retrospective review of 30 patients with serous andmucinous bot treated at or referred to our institution was performed. fifteenpatients (50%) had serous, and the others had mucinous bot. about 86% of allpatients in both groups were in stage i of the disease. the recurrent diseas...

Context Mucinous cystic neoplasms are cystic lesions of the pancreas with a relevant risk to progress to invasive cancer. Mucinous cystic neoplasms are characterized by the presence of an ovarian-like stroma and its almost exclusive occurrence in women. Case report Here we report the case of a 41-year old patient with a known cystic lesion that became symptomatic briefly after pregnancy. A panc...

To present and discuss a novel association between branch duct-type intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm and paraneoplastic parapsoriasis. We present the case of a middle-aged male presenting with skin lesions that were suggestive of parapsoriasis, resistant to treatment, and in whom a diagnosis of branch-type intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas was eventually made. A cur...

The majority of pancreatic cysts are detected incidentally when abdominal imaging is performed during unrelated procedures. The aim of the present study was to assess the diagnostic utility and clinical value of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) and amylase analysis in pancreatic cyst fluid. The study included 52 patients with pancreatic cystic lesions, who und...

Mucinous neoplasms of the urinary tract are very rare. We present a 63-year-old-women who had a sessile papillary villous tumor in urinary bladder. Although transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT) was performed, the villous tumor repetitively recurred and gradually spread to the entire surface of bladder lumen. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical examination showed that the les...

Mucinous pancreatic neoplasms are uncommon disorders classified as either mucinous cystic neoplasms (mucinous cystadenoma or cystadenocarcinoma) or the more recently described intraductal mucin hypersecreting neoplasms (IMHN), also termed mucinous ductal ectasia. The mucinous cystic neoplasms share many common features with IMHN's but remain distinct clinico-pathologic entities. These tumors ha...

Abstract Background Pancreatic serous cystadenoma (SCA) is a benign, cystic lesion with an indolent growth pattern. Complications such as spontaneous hemorrhage or malignant transformation from SCA are extremely rare. Our case report describes unusual presentation of patient previously diagnosed SCA, made unique by the presence three separate neoplasms in final specimen. Case A 74-year-old male...

The differential diagnosis for cystic lesions of the pancreas is broad and the role of EUS is becoming more clearly defined. Pancreatic cysts may be inflammatory, such as pseudocysts, in which the cyst wall lacks an epithelium. Inflammatory cells line the fluid collection, which may often be located adjacent to an area of acute or chronic pancreatitis. Other types of pancreatic cysts may be bro...

CONTEXT Greater utilization of cross-sectional abdominal imaging has increased the diagnostic frequency of cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. The "International Consensus Guidelines 2012 for the Management of IPMN and MCN of the Pancreas" illustrates a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm for these lesions based on current knowledge. CASE REPORT We present a case of a 49-year-old woman with tw...

Dear Editor, Indeed, cystic tumors of the pancreas are rare and account for 10–15% of pancreatic neoplasms. There are four main categories of pancreatic cystic tumors including i) Mucinous cystic tumors (MCTs); ii) Serous cystic tumors (SCTs); iii) Intraductal papillary cystic tumors (IPCTs); and iv) Papillary cystic tumors. Mucinous cystic neoplasm of the pancreas is an uncommon tumor characte...