True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity

Pancreatic cysts are common in adults but rarely seen in children. Out of those seen in children, the majority are pseudocysts. This article presents a unique case of a child diagnosed with a true congenital pancreatic cyst which was ultimately excised completely.

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Autores principales: Shahid, Mina'a, Javed, Zarmina, Usman, Muhammad, Iltaf, Salma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6248713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30473951
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3318
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spelling pubmed-62487132018-11-23 True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity Shahid, Mina'a Javed, Zarmina Usman, Muhammad Iltaf, Salma Cureus Pathology Pancreatic cysts are common in adults but rarely seen in children. Out of those seen in children, the majority are pseudocysts. This article presents a unique case of a child diagnosed with a true congenital pancreatic cyst which was ultimately excised completely. Cureus 2018-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6248713/ /pubmed/30473951 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3318 Text en Copyright © 2018, Shahid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Shahid, Mina'a
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True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity
title True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity
title_full True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity
title_fullStr True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity
title_short True Congenital Pancreatic Cyst: A Rare Entity
title_sort true congenital pancreatic cyst: a rare entity
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6248713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30473951
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3318
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