A case of double cancer (pancreatic and ovarian adenocarcinomas) in a woman suggested by exfoliative and fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology is reported. Exfoliative cytology, including immunohistochemical findings of the biliary juice and those of clinical image examinations indicated tubular adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic body. FNA cytologic findings with immunohistochemical observation a...

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...

A variety of uncommon types of pancreatic carcinoma have been described, including acinar, adenosquamous, anaplastic, papillary, mucinous and microadenocarcinomas, each of which composes less than 5% of the total. All of these have similarly poor prognoses and are treated in a similar fashion. Also uncommon are mucinous cystic neoplasms (cystadenoma/cystadenocarcinoma) of the pancreas, which oc...

Pancreatic cancer carries one of the worst prognoses in United States. It is fourth leading cause cancer-related death States and second after colorectal digestive system death. Early detection key to improving its prognosis. Surgical resection only curative treatment, but even margin-negative resection, 5-year survival rate still 30%. The following case presents a fascinating diagnosis pancrea...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the risk of subsequently developing a new or progressive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) after partial pancreatic resection of a noninvasive IPMN. STUDY DESIGN One hundred thirty patients with more than 1 year of follow-up after resection were included in this analysis. RESULTS At a median follow-up of 38 months, 22 (17%) developed imaging evi...

BACKGROUND Pancreas divisum, the most common congenital anomaly of the pancreas, is caused by failure of the fusion of the ventral and dorsal pancreatic duct systems during embryological development. Although various pancreatic tumors can occur in patients with pancreas divisum, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm is rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 77-year-old woman was referred to our hospital...

The patient was a 60-year-old man without any particular complaints, but he underwent abdominal computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) due to a fatty liver, which revealed two similar cystic lesions regarded as branch duct-type intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (BD-IPMN) in the pancreatic body [BD-IPMN (b), 16 mm in size] and tail [BD-IPMN (t), 13 ...

BACKGROUND Using carcinoembryonic antigen in discriminating between benign and malignant disease remains controversial. AIMS We aim to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of cyst fluid carcinoembryonic antigen in predicting malignant pancreatic cystic lesions. METHODS We performed a literature search of MEDLINE and EMBASE. We included studies that compared the diagnostic accuracy of carcinoemb...

Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death and is the most lethal of common malignancies with a five-year survival rate of <10%. PDAC arises from different types of non-invasive precursor lesions: intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms, mucinous cystic neoplasms and pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia. The genetic landscape of PDAC is char...

BACKGROUND Mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN) of the pancreas is basically cystic epithelial neoplasm, unilocular or multilocular, occurring almost exclusively in women. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old female presented with a pancreatic mass incidentally found on the abdominal computed tomography. She underwent distal pancreatectomy. The sectioned surface of the pancreas revealed a circumscribed,...