Tackling the Diagnosis: Solid Pseudopapillary Tumor of the Pancreas in a Young Man

Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas is an extremely rare pancreatic tumor. It usually goes undetectable for a prolonged period of time given its lack of clinical symptoms. But when detected, it has a malignancy potential of 15%. Here we present a case of SPT diagnosed incidentally in a...

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Autores principales: Campos, Marilia, Campbell, James, Gonzalez, Hernando, Najmuddin, Mufaddal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6575137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236160
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr1170
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author Campos, Marilia
Campbell, James
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description Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas is an extremely rare pancreatic tumor. It usually goes undetectable for a prolonged period of time given its lack of clinical symptoms. But when detected, it has a malignancy potential of 15%. Here we present a case of SPT diagnosed incidentally in a 17-year-old man during a routine evaluation for an abdominal trauma.
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spelling pubmed-65751372019-06-24 Tackling the Diagnosis: Solid Pseudopapillary Tumor of the Pancreas in a Young Man Campos, Marilia Campbell, James Gonzalez, Hernando Najmuddin, Mufaddal Gastroenterology Res Case Report Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas is an extremely rare pancreatic tumor. It usually goes undetectable for a prolonged period of time given its lack of clinical symptoms. But when detected, it has a malignancy potential of 15%. Here we present a case of SPT diagnosed incidentally in a 17-year-old man during a routine evaluation for an abdominal trauma. Elmer Press 2019-06 2019-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6575137/ /pubmed/31236160 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr1170 Text en Copyright 2019, Campos et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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