Cystic tumor of the pancreas

• Author(s): Rodrigues, H ; Belo-Oliveira, P ; Donato, P ; Caseiro-Alves, F
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/20
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Neoplasias do Pâncreas; Tomografia Computorizada
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

We describe a case of a 55-year-old female, with epigastric pain and vomiting for the last two months. Abdominal ultrasound and a CT showed the presence of a cystic mass in the pancreatic body and tail, without secondary lesions. After surgery, the pathologist stated that the lesion was a mucinous cystadenoma