title: Solid and cystic pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas: A case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Solid and cystic pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas is a rare tumor of the pancreas, for the first time described by Frantz et al. in 1959. The majority of patients are young females and most of them are asymptomatic.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of 25-year old woman who was admitted to our institution with abdominal pain and a palpable mass in the left hypochondrial area. US and CT scan revealed a solid and cystic pseudopapillary tumor in the head of the pancreas. The patient was treated by Whipple procedure, modification Longmire-Traverso. There was no metastatic disease either in the liver or peritoneum. Histologically the tumor was diagnosed as a solid and cystic pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The unclear pre-operative diagnoses, together with incidence of potential malignancy as well as good outcome with resection, suggest that all suspected cystic tumors of the pancreas should be resected.The exact diagnosis is based on histological findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Clinic for Surgery, Clinical Center Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.
authors.forename: Bojan Z
authors.initials: BZ
authors.lastname: Milojević
authors.forename: Rade M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Marković
authors.forename: Aleksandar M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Cvetković
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009375:Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010179:Pancreas / Q000473:pathology*; D010180:Pancreatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome