The papillary cystic tumor of the pancreas is an extremely rare tumor that occurs predominantly in young women.
It has a low malignant potential and is highly curable with surgical treatment.
During recent 5 years, total 9 cases of these tumors were retrospectively reviewed with literature.
@ES The results were as follows.
@EN 1) It occured almost in age of second and third decades of women.
2) Chief complaints were epigastric or LUQ pain, in all cases.
3) The most common site was body and tail of the pancreas.
4) Helpful diagnostic methods were CT, USG, UGI ets., tumor marker were whithin normal limit.
5) In the preoperative diagnosis, papillary cystic tumor were diagnosed only two cases, the others were diagnosed as pseudocyst, cystadenocarcinoma etc.
6) The operative methods were as follows : distal pancreatectomy 5 cases, distal pancreatectomy with splenenectomy 2 cases, partial pancreatectomy 1 case, Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy 1 case.
7) There was one case of metastasis to the greater omentum in the operation, but evidence or recurrence was not found at the postoperative follow-up study for 2 years.
8) Eight of nine cases has been follow-up and one among them was dead from hepatic metastasis whithin two years. The duration of follow-up were- from six monthes to three years.
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