title: Post-pubertal mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kagoshima University, Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mukai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takamatsu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukushige
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tahara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashida
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: 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*