A rare case of three different tumors in the same pancreatic specimen: a case report and brief review of the literature

Giulia De Marchi; Salvatore Paiella; Claudio Luchini; Antonio Amodio; Borislav Rusev; Claudio Bassi; Riccardo Manfredi; Luca Frulloni

doi:10.21037/jgo.2016.01.04

A rare case of three different tumors in the same pancreatic specimen: a case report and brief review of the literature

J Gastrointest Oncol. 2016 Jun;7(3):E52-7. doi: 10.21037/jgo.2016.01.04.

Authors

Giulia De Marchi¹, Salvatore Paiella¹, Claudio Luchini¹, Antonio Amodio¹, Borislav Rusev¹, Claudio Bassi¹, Riccardo Manfredi¹, Luca Frulloni¹

Affiliation

¹ 1 Department of Gastroenterology B, 2 Unit of General and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Pathology, 3 ARC-NET Applied Research on Cancer Center, Department of Pathology and Diagnostics, 4 Department of Radiology, The Pancreas Institute, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Abstract

Solid pseudopapillary tumors (SPT) of the pancreas are rare neoplasms mainly affecting young women. Pancreatic serous cystadenomas (SCAs) and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) account for about 2% of all pancreatic neoplasms. The combination of these three lesions, to our knowledge, has never been described in literature. Here we report a case of combined SPT, SCA and PanNET affecting a 33-year-old woman.

Keywords: Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT); endocrine neoplasm; multiple pancreatic tumors; serous cystadenoma (SCA).

Publication types

Case Reports