A Case of Pancreatic Endometrial Cyst

Pancreatic endometrial cyst is an extremely rare instance of ectopic endometriosis that was first described by Marchevsky in 1984(1)). A 21-yr-old woman with a history of epigastric pain and weight loss was found to have a cystic lesion in the pancreas on CT-scan. Under the tentative diagnosis of a...

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Autores principales: Lee, Dong Soo, Baek, Jong Tae, Ahn, Byung Min, Lee, Eun Hee, Han, Sok Won, Chung, In Sik, Sun, Hee Sik, Park, Doo Ho
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2002
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12647644
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2002.17.4.266
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author Lee, Dong Soo
Baek, Jong Tae
Ahn, Byung Min
Lee, Eun Hee
Han, Sok Won
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Sun, Hee Sik
Park, Doo Ho
author_facet Lee, Dong Soo
Baek, Jong Tae
Ahn, Byung Min
Lee, Eun Hee
Han, Sok Won
Chung, In Sik
Sun, Hee Sik
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description Pancreatic endometrial cyst is an extremely rare instance of ectopic endometriosis that was first described by Marchevsky in 1984(1)). A 21-yr-old woman with a history of epigastric pain and weight loss was found to have a cystic lesion in the pancreas on CT-scan. Under the tentative diagnosis of a pancreatic cystic neoplasm, partial pancreatectomy was performed. Histopathological examination of the specimen revealed cystic endometriosis. The clinicopathological features of the lesion are discussed and literature concerning this extremely rare lesion is reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-45316832015-10-02 A Case of Pancreatic Endometrial Cyst Lee, Dong Soo Baek, Jong Tae Ahn, Byung Min Lee, Eun Hee Han, Sok Won Chung, In Sik Sun, Hee Sik Park, Doo Ho Korean J Intern Med Case Report Pancreatic endometrial cyst is an extremely rare instance of ectopic endometriosis that was first described by Marchevsky in 1984(1)). A 21-yr-old woman with a history of epigastric pain and weight loss was found to have a cystic lesion in the pancreas on CT-scan. Under the tentative diagnosis of a pancreatic cystic neoplasm, partial pancreatectomy was performed. Histopathological examination of the specimen revealed cystic endometriosis. The clinicopathological features of the lesion are discussed and literature concerning this extremely rare lesion is reviewed. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2002-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4531683/ /pubmed/12647644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2002.17.4.266 Text en Copyright © 2002 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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