Angiographic features of peripancreatic malignant lymphoma.
Angiographic features are described in 5 patients with peripancreatic lymphomas who initially presented with clinical features of primary pancreatic disease. Each patient demonstrated a large hypovascular mass with considerable displacement of pancreatic and peripancreatic arteries and associated compression of adjacent veins. Smooth arterial encasement was present in 2 cases. Signs of mass out of proportion to signs of invasion mitigated against the diagnosis of carcinoma in each case. Other differential diagnostic considerations are pancreatic pseudocyst and cystadenoma.
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*