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Large pancreatic lipoma in a 69-year-old diabetic woman: diagnostic considerations

Pancreatic mesenchymal neoplasms are very rare pancreatic tumours. One of them is pancreatic lipoma, often diagnosed incidentally. We herein report a case of a large lipoma of the pancreatic head, diagnosed by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed by ultrasound-guided fine...

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Autores principales: Budzyńska, Agnieszka, Nowakowska-Duława, Ewa, Cholewka, Andrzej, Pilch-Kowalczyk, Joanna, Kajor, Maciej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25097715
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pg.2014.43579
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author Budzyńska, Agnieszka
Nowakowska-Duława, Ewa
Cholewka, Andrzej
Pilch-Kowalczyk, Joanna
Kajor, Maciej
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description Pancreatic mesenchymal neoplasms are very rare pancreatic tumours. One of them is pancreatic lipoma, often diagnosed incidentally. We herein report a case of a large lipoma of the pancreatic head, diagnosed by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed by ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy (FNA) biopsy. Regarding its benign character, silent clinical course and excellent prognosis of invasive surgical removal was avoided. We propose here the diagnostic and therapeutic management of these rare pancreatic tumours. Computed tomography is the most accurate method to diagnose pancreatic lipoma. Nevertheless large tumours may need confirmation by FNA in differential diagnosis of liposarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-41103642014-08-05 Large pancreatic lipoma in a 69-year-old diabetic woman: diagnostic considerations Budzyńska, Agnieszka Nowakowska-Duława, Ewa Cholewka, Andrzej Pilch-Kowalczyk, Joanna Kajor, Maciej Prz Gastroenterol Case Report Pancreatic mesenchymal neoplasms are very rare pancreatic tumours. One of them is pancreatic lipoma, often diagnosed incidentally. We herein report a case of a large lipoma of the pancreatic head, diagnosed by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed by ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy (FNA) biopsy. Regarding its benign character, silent clinical course and excellent prognosis of invasive surgical removal was avoided. We propose here the diagnostic and therapeutic management of these rare pancreatic tumours. Computed tomography is the most accurate method to diagnose pancreatic lipoma. Nevertheless large tumours may need confirmation by FNA in differential diagnosis of liposarcoma. Termedia Publishing House 2014-06-26 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4110364/ /pubmed/25097715 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pg.2014.43579 Text en Copyright © 2014 Termedia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pilch-Kowalczyk, Joanna
Kajor, Maciej
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110364/
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