Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas

Cystic pancreatic tumors are rare in children and the immature cystic teratoma of the pancreas is even rarer. A review of the world literature shows 18 documented cases involving all the age groups. The preoperative evaluation of this lesion is rather questionable, with definitive diagnosis taking p...

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Autores principales: Kela, Manoj, Singh, Sangram, Lahoti, Brijesh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011478
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43037
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author Kela, Manoj
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description Cystic pancreatic tumors are rare in children and the immature cystic teratoma of the pancreas is even rarer. A review of the world literature shows 18 documented cases involving all the age groups. The preoperative evaluation of this lesion is rather questionable, with definitive diagnosis taking place intraoperatively. We report the 19(th) case, in a 5-month-old male child. The clinical presentation and preoperative diagnosis of this anomaly are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-27884412009-12-13 Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas Kela, Manoj Singh, Sangram Lahoti, Brijesh J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Cystic pancreatic tumors are rare in children and the immature cystic teratoma of the pancreas is even rarer. A review of the world literature shows 18 documented cases involving all the age groups. The preoperative evaluation of this lesion is rather questionable, with definitive diagnosis taking place intraoperatively. We report the 19(th) case, in a 5-month-old male child. The clinical presentation and preoperative diagnosis of this anomaly are discussed. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2788441/ /pubmed/20011478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43037 Text en © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas
title Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas
title_full Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas
title_fullStr Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas
title_full_unstemmed Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas
title_short Immature cystic teratoma of head of pancreas
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20011478
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.43037
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