PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blandamura, Stella
AU  - Parenti, Anna
AU  - Famengo, Barbara
AU  - Canesso, Alessandra
AU  - Moschino, Paolo
AU  - Pasquali, Claudio
AU  - Pizzi, Sara
AU  - Guzzardo, Vincenza
AU  - Ninfo, Vito
TI  - Three cases of pancreatic serous cystadenoma and endocrine tumour
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.2006.036954
DP  - 2007 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 278--282
VI  - 60
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/60/3/278.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/60/3/278.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol2007 Mar 01; 60
AB  - Aims: To report three cases of serous cystadenoma and endocrine tumour in the same pancreas, to review the literature and to evaluate the clinicopathological features of the tumours. Cases: Three women (71, 57 and 31 years old) were admitted to hospital, two for diseases unrelated to the pancreas and the third for increasing obstructive jaundice in von Hippel-Lindau disease. Preoperative examination showed two distinct lesions in the first patient and only cystic lesions in the other two. Results: Histological examination of the pancreas showed one serous oligocystic adenoma associated with a benign, well-differentiated endocrine tumour, one serous oligocystic adenoma associated with an endocrine microadenoma, and a von Hippel-Lindau-related cystic neoplasm with a well-differentiated endocrine carcinoma. Conclusions: Serous cystadenoma associated with endocrine tumour shows some clinicopathological differences with respect to the two tumours considered separately, and with respect to von Hippel-Lindau-related cases, although there is no convincing evidence at present to justify considering this association as a separate entity.