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...

Background. Pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasm (PMCN) with associated invasive carcinoma is a rare entity. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) 2010, PMCN referred malignant lesions of pancreatic epithelial tumour. Case report. A 52-year-old female patient presented pain in umbilical and epigastric regions for 5 months noticed solid visible tumour on left side abdomen 3 ago when sh...

History A 44 year old Caucasian female patient was hospitalised for epigastric and right abdominal pain lasting for seven months. Abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography showed a cystic lesion located in the superior and anterior part of the pancreatic isthmus, with a maximal diameter of 3.5 cm (fig 1A, B). T2 magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a trilobar cystic lesion with strong hyp...

History A 44 year old Caucasian female patient was hospitalised for epigastric and right abdominal pain lasting for seven months. Abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography showed a cystic lesion located in the superior and anterior part of the pancreatic isthmus, with a maximal diameter of 3.5 cm (fig 1A, B). T2 magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a trilobar cystic lesion with strong hyp...

Gastric duplication cyst (GDC) in an adult can have several clinical presentations. A review of the literature showed previously reported cases of GDC presenting as pancreatic pseudocyst or with greatly raised concentrations of carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9). It is often difficult to discriminate GDC from pancreatic cystic tumour, in particular pancreatic mucinous cystadenoma, in which con...

context the current literature suggests that minimally invasive surgery is associated with faster recovery and less morbidity than open surgery. parenchyma-sparing pancreatectomy is minimally invasive surgery, including enucleation, inferior head pancreatectomy, spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy, and central pancreatectomy, combined pancreatectomy such as inferior head pancreatectomy plus...

Mucinous carcinoma of the breast is a well differentiated, rare histological type of invasive ductal carcinoma, seen in oldest median age (69 years). We describe a case of a 60 yr old female with large right breast mass of 10 years duration with no nodal involvement. The reasons to present this case are 1) Because of its rarity. 2) Despite having a large tumour size, the axillary lymph node ...

INTRODUCTION With the improved quality and widespread availability of diagnostic abdominal imaging, incidental intra-abdominal lesions (incidentalomas) are being increasingly identified. Our objective was to characterize the clinical features of asymptomatic patients with incidentally discovered pancreatic lesions and to assess the accuracy of preoperative radiologic diagnosis against the final...

CONTEXT Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are uncommon tumours which can be associated with pancreatic and extrapancreatic malignancies. The association of IPMN and neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas has been reported previously but is exceedingly rare. CASE REPORT We report three cases of IPMN treated with total pancreatectomy/extended distal pancreatectomy. Histopathologi...

The prevalence, distribution, and clinical associations of pancreatic ductal mucinous hyperplasia were studied in 102 non-malignant pancreases. Ductal mucinous hyperplasia was found in over 60% of specimens and was frequently associated with increased fibrosis--occasionally resembling pancreatitis. Significantly more ductal mucinous hyperplasia was found in pancreas from patients who were recei...