The Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation

May 2015

Desmoid tumor of the pancreas: a case report.

Author Information

Andrzej Kamiński,Anna Piotrowska,Jadwiga Małdyk,Przemysław Kluge,Robert Rogulski,Żaneta Słowik-Moczydłowska

Department of Pathology, Medical University of Warsaw, Marszałkowska 24, Warsaw, 00-576, Poland.chirurgia@litewska.edu.pl.,Department of Pathology, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Al. Dzieci Polskich 20, Warsaw, 04-730, Poland.zaklad.patologii@ipczd.pl.,Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Marszałkowska 24, Warsaw, 00-576, Poland.andrzej.kaminski@litewska.edu.pl.,Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Marszałkowska 24, Warsaw, 00-576, Poland.chirurgia@litewska.edu.pl.,Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Marszałkowska 24, Warsaw, 00-576, Poland.mikrochirurg@wp.pl.,Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Marszałkowska 24, Warsaw, 00-576, Poland.zslowikmoczydlowska@gmail.com.

Publication

Summary

Pancreatic desmoid tumor is extremely rare. In the literature there have been only 11 cases described, most of them as solid or solid-cystic masses. We report the case of a patient with an isolated cystic pancreatic desmoid tumor that is, to the best of our knowledge, the second reported case. This case report should be of interest not only to surgeons, as the treatment of choice is radical resection, but also gastroenterologists, considering it is in close relation with familial adenomatous polyposis, and oncologists as the reason for differentiation with other pancreatic tumors.

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