Lipoma of the pancreas: diagnosis and management of these rare tumors.
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چکیده
Nonductal pancreatic tumors are uncommon, accounting for 5% to 15% of all pancreatic neoplasms and include mesenchymal tumors which represent only 1% to 2% of all pancreatic neoplasms (1). Lipomas of the pancreas are bening mesenchymal tumors, are uncommun in this location (2). There are only sixteen published in the literature at the moment; most of them are diagnosed incidentally on CT scan or Ultrasonography (1-9). We report the case of a patient with acute pancreatitis, and in the radiological studies we find incidentally a lipoma of the pancreas.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas : organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva
دوره 98 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006