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Case Reports
. 2009 Aug;41(2):129-32.

Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas

Nesrin Gursan  1 , M Ilhan Yildirgan  2 , S Selcuk Atamanalp  2 , Onder Sahin  1 , M Sevki Gursan  2
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Case Reports

Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas

Nesrin Gursan et al. Eurasian J Med. 2009 Aug.

Abstract
in English, Turkish

Solid pseudopapillary tumors of the pancreas, known as Frantz tumors, are rare pancreatic tumors that occur predominantly in women, with very few cases reported in men. We present the case of a 27-year-old female patient who came to the emergency room with an intense upper abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting and a palpable mass in the left upper quadrant. She was initially diagnosed with a post-traumatic pancreatic pseudocyst. The patient underwent distal pancreatectomy with splenic preservation; the histopathological report showed a pseudopapillary solid tumor of the pancreas without malignant cells. In this report, a case of rare solid-pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas is described. Our objective was to report an infrequent case of pancreatic pseudopapillary tumor and to carry out a review of the literature.

Frantz tumor olarak ta bilinen pankreasın solid papiller tümörleri pankreasın nadir tümörlerindendir. Kadınlarda daha sık olup birkaç erkekte rapor edilmiştir. Bizim sunduğumuz vakamız 27 yaşında bayan. Acile batında ağrı bulantı kusma şikayeti ile geliyor. Sol üst kadranda kitlesi mevcut. Post travmatik pankreatik kist tanısı ile opere ediliyor. Distal pankreatektomi yapılıyor. Histopatolojik tanı solid papiller tümör olarak rapor ediliyor. Biz böyle nadir bir vakayı tanımlayıp ve literatür eşliğinde tartışmak istedik.

Keywords: Pancreas; Pseudopapillary; Tumor.

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T2-weighted MR appearance of a SPTP.
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Solid-pseudopapillary tumor (HE × 100).
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