title: Pancreatic hepatoid carcinoma: a rare form of pancreatic neoplasm.
abstract: Primary pancreatic hepatoid carcinoma (PHC) is extremely rare, resembling hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in terms of morphology and immunohistochemical features. Hepatoid carcinoma can present in other organs, most noticeably in the stomach. PHC is present in two forms either a pure form like HCC or admixed with other histologic tumor components characteristic of the underlying primary site (endocrine tumors, ductal, or acinar adenocarcinomas). Here, we report a 69-year-old male patient with distal pancreatic mass incidentally found during a CT scan workup for a pulmonary nodule suspicious for metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma. We described the clinical, cytological, and histological finding and conducted a literature review.
authors: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.
authors: Yousef
authors: Y
authors: Soofi
authors: Kazunori
authors: K
authors: Kanehira
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Abbas
authors: Jose
authors: J
authors: Aranez
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Bain
authors: Lourdes
authors: L
authors: Ylagan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography
keywords: HepPar1; ectopic liver cancer; hepatocellular carcinoma; pancreatic hepatoid carcinoma