Intraductal papillary neoplasm associated with mucinous ductal ectasia is an uncommon cystic disease of the pancreas. This tumor is characterized by the multilocular cyst lined by mucin producing cells with variable degrees of atypia and ductal ectasia. In addition, this tumor has a favorable prognosis in contrast to other mucinous cystic tumor of the pancreas. Reports on intraductal mucin prod...

A 64-year-old woman with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus was admitted with intermittent abdominal pain of 3 years’ duration. Computed tomography (CT) showed multifocal pancreatic cystic lesions with a dilated main pancreatic duct and calcification of a cyst wall (▶Fig. 1), raising suspicion of a mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas. Needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE) (AQ-Fl...

BACKGROUND Only few case reports of mucinous cystic pancreatic neoplasm containing an undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells have been described in the literature. In the majority of cases this unusual association of tumors seems related to a favorable outcome. We present the second case of an indeterminate mucin-producting cystic neoplasm containing an area of carcinoma wi...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Cystic pancreatic lesions are more and more often found. Malignant risk ranges from nil to more than 60%. A precise diagnosis is required to adapt surveillance or therapeutic strategy. METHODS We tried to identify the most difficult differential diagnoses encountered in a tertiary center of pancreatology and to guide the reader as how to reach the correct strategy and diagnosis in ...

Ovarian carcinoid tumor is a rare neoplasm that may appear as a solid mass or often combined with teratomas or mucinous tumors. We report 2 cases associated with mucinous cystadenomas and describe their magnetic resonance imaging characteristics. On T(2)-weighted images, the tumors appeared as multilocular cystic masses with hypointense solid components as a result of abundant fibrous stroma in...

BACKGROUND Cystic pancreatic lesions are increasingly more frequent detected clinical entities. Mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN) is a hormone-related pancreatic tumor (HRTP) with a strong predominance in young and middle-aged females. CASE PRESENTATION Here, we present the case of a 31-year-old surgically transgendered female-to-male patient with a history of alcoholic pancreatitis, on chronic ...

Warshaw, A. L, Compton, C. C., Lewandrowski, K., Cardenosa, G. and Mueller, P. R. (1990) Cystic tumors of the pancreas. New clinical, radiologic and pathologic observations in 67 patiems. Annals ofSurgery, 212, 432-445. Within a 12-year period we treated 67 patients (49 women, 18 men; mean age, 61 years) with cystic neoplasms of the pancreas, including 18 serous cystic adenomas, 15 benign mucin...