OBJECTIVE To compare clinicopathological characteristics and survival rates between patients with primary ovarian mucinous carcinoma and those with primary ovarian serous carcinoma. METHODS This retrospective study reviewed archival tumour specimens, originally diagnosed as primary ovarian mucinous carcinoma, using refined histological criteria. All patients were contacted to establish surviv...

• Objective: To review the diagnosis and management of pancreatic cystic lesions. • Methods: Narrative review of the literature. • Results: Pancreatic cystic lesions are clinically relevant as some are precursor lesions to pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Mucinous cystic neoplasms and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms are 2 commonly encountered pre-cancerous pancreatic cysts. Many cysts are id...

BACKGROUND Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) are distinct precursor lesions that can progress to pancreatic adenocarcinoma; thus, it has been of particular interest to cancer prevention researchers. We set out to do a population-based analysis of malignant IPMNs compared with other pancreatic subtypes to better delineate its characteristics and explore implications for prevention ...

Correspondence to: Mecit Kantarci, 200 Evler Mah. 14. Sok No: 5, Dadaskent, Erzurum, Turkey Phone: +90 442 327 38 02 Fax: +90 442 236 13 01 e-mail: [email protected] doi:10.5152/eajm.2012.15 Received: July 07, 2011 / Accepted: October 26, 2011 A 79-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with complaints of abdominal discomfort, jaundice and weight loss. His physical examination was unremar...

CONTEXT EUS with fine-needle aspiration and cyst fluid analysis is routinely used to evaluate pancreatic cysts; however, the clinical course of these lesions is often not well defined. OBJECTIVE Our study evaluated whether EUS imaging, cyst fluid CEA, and cytology combined with cyst fluid genetic analyses for allelic imbalance and genetic mutations can be used to better predict the malignant ...

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. According to the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, the median age at diagnosis between 2003-2007 was 72 years of age, and the incidence of new cases diagnosed during this period in all races was 13.3 per 100,000 men and 10.5 per 100,000 women. The median age at death for pancreatic cancer during th...

Background: The most common types of true epithelial exocrine pancreatic cystic neoplasms are serous (SCNs), mucinous (MCNs), intra-ductal papillary (IPMNs), and solid pseudo-papillary (SPPNs). Both open laparoscopic surgeries major procedures with significant morbidity mortality rates. This study aimed to determine the outcomes surgery in managing terms postoperative fistula recurrence rate id...

Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCL) may be incidentally detected in up to 13.5% of patients. These represent a wide variety of lesions including mucinous cysts [intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) and mucinous cystic neoplasms (MCN)] that have malignant potential. The difficulty in identifying the various PCL and their unpredictable potential for malignant degeneration makes their manag...