Post-pubertal mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas.
A 14-year-old patient with a mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas (MCAP) is presented. She presented with a palpable left-sided abdominal mass and underwent a left hemipancreatectomy. MCAP occurs mostly in middle-aged women, and no post-pubertal cases have been reported to date in the English literature.
Mukai
M
M
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kagoshima University, Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
Takamatsu
H
H
Noguchi
H
H
Fukushige
T
T
Tahara
H
H
Hayashida
Y
Y
Yoshida
A
A
D000293:Adolescent; D018291:Cystadenoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010181:Pancreatic Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*