Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the biliary tract: a real disease?
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Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm.
A 75-year-old male with a history of dyslipidemia, no alcohol abuse, acute pericarditis and two pancreatitis episodes 16 and 3 years ago, consulted due to a new pancreatitis episode (amylase 536 IU/l). Abdominal CT and MRI showed irregular, rosary-like dilatation of the duct of Wirsung in the body and tail (Fig. 1). In the pancreatic body-tail, echoendoscopy revealed a 15-mm duct of Wirsung wit...
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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...
متن کاملFocus on the intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are rare pancreatic tumours, accounting for less of 1-2% of all neoplasms of the gland. Main characteristics of IPMNs are their favourable prognosis as these pre-malignant or frankly malignant lesions are usually slow-growing tumours and radical surgery is frequently possible. According with the localization of the lesions, three different entiti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: HPB
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1365-182X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-2574.2009.00122.x