Solid-pseudopapillary tumor of pancreas in a young woman: a case report and literature review
| Autor: | Sydney Correia Leão, Paulo Sérgio Faro Santos, Ricardo Luis Cavalcanti De Alburquerque-Júnior, Vanessa Rocha de Santana, Sonia Oliveira Lima |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology Pancreatic neoplasms Adolescent Enolase progesterone Asymptomatic Receptors Progesterone receptor Carcinoma Medicine Humans Pancreas biology business.industry Chromogranin A General Medicine medicine.disease Carcinoma Papillary Pancreatic Neoplasms medicine.anatomical_structure Synaptophysin biology.protein Histopathology Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Revista médica de Chile v.140 n.9 2012 SciELO Chile CONICYT Chile instacron:CONICYT |
| ISSN: | 0717-6163 |
| Popis: | Solid-pseudopapillary tumor of pancreas is a rare neoplasm which occurs pre-dominantely in young females. This tumor generally is asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic and some imaging tests are useful for its diagnosis. We report a 17 years-old woman with dyspeptic symptoms submitted to an abdominal ultrasound (US), that revealed a hypoechogenic mass between the liver, right kidney and pancreas. Computer tomography (CT) scan showed a hypodense and heterogeneous mass on pancreas head. The patient underwent elective resection of the mass and the histopathology was consistent with a solid-pseudopapillary tumor of pancreas. Immunohistochemical positivity for NSE (neuron-specific enolase), progesterone receptor, alfa-1-antitrypsin, vimentin, AE1/AE3, and negativity for synaptophysin and chromogranin A confirmed the diagnosis. After four years of clinical follow-up, the patient remains in a good general condition without signs of tumor recurrence. |
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