Sneaky Pancreatic Head Mass

Plasmocytoma presented as pancreatic head mass

Multiple myeloma is a malignant tumour characterized by proliferation of a single clone of plasma cells, this cell line will produce large amount of ineffective immunoglobulins that are ineffective at fighting infection resulting in immunosuppression. These are medullary tumours most of the time; however, in rare cases they may arise extra medullary. The incidence of extramedullary plasmocytoma...

Pancreatic Head Mass from Metastatic Meningeal Hemangiopericytoma

Purpose. To illustrate the propensity of meningeal hemangiopericytoma to spread extraneurally, as a distinction to the ordinary meningioma.Patients or subjects. A patient with long history of meningeal hemangiopericytoma was reported.Methods. A case report on meningeal hemangiopericytoma with a literature review was presented.Results. The patient has multiple local recurrence as well as distant...

A Rare Presentation of Sarcoidosis as a Pancreatic Head Mass

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous syndrome of unknown etiology with noncaseating epithelioid granulomas being the pathognomonic pathological finding. Sarcoidosis most commonly involves the lungs and involvement of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is uncommon. Pancreatic sarcoidosis is very rare, especially when it is the presenting feature of sarcoidosis and can masquerade as pancreatic...

Pancreatic head mass, what can be done? Diagnosis: cytology.

Predictors of malignancy in pancreatic head mass: a prospective study

INTRODUCTION The objective of the study was to identify the predictive factors for malignancy in pancreatic head mass as a primary outcome and assess the value of CA 19-9 as a diagnostic tool for malignancy as a secondary outcome. METHODS A prospective study of patients presented with pancreatic head mass was conducted in a tertiary care referral hospital, Manipal, India from May 2006 to Nove...