title: Pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasm in a male patient.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN) of the pancreas usually affects female patients and is characterized by an ovarian-type stroma. From literature review, only 9 cases of MCNs have been reported in male patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe the 10th case of a MCN in a 65-year-old male patient who underwent a distal pancreatectomy with spleen resection and standard lymphadenectomy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MCN may rarely regard male patients, probably for embryological abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Bologna. Bologna, Italy. riccardo.casadei@unibo.it
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Casadei
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pezzilli
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Calculli
authors.forename: Donatella
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Santini
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Taffurelli
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.forename: Marielda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Ambra
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Minni
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018291:Cystadenoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery