RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Three cases of pancreatic serous cystadenoma and endocrine tumour
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 278
OP 282
DO 10.1136/jcp.2006.036954
VO 60
IS 3
A1 Blandamura, Stella
A1 Parenti, Anna
A1 Famengo, Barbara
A1 Canesso, Alessandra
A1 Moschino, Paolo
A1 Pasquali, Claudio
A1 Pizzi, Sara
A1 Guzzardo, Vincenza
A1 Ninfo, Vito
YR 2007
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/60/3/278.abstract
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.