title: Beger procedure in a 20-year-old female with solid pseudopapillary tumour of the pancreas.
abstract: Solid pseudopapillary tumour is a rare indolent neoplasm of the pancreas (< 2% of exocrine pancreatic tumours), which predominantly affects young women at reproductive age, without significant clinical symptoms. We report a case of a 20-year-old Caucasian female who presented with upper abdominal pain of one-year duration. Ultrasound scans of the abdomen demonstrated enlarged pancreatic head and body containing a poorly separated mass (52 × 41 × 36 mm) with a multi-cystic component 20-24 mm in diameter. Laboratory tests including, tumour markers levels, were normal. She underwent complete resection of the tumour using a Beger procedure. By immunohistochemistry, the case stained strongly for CD10 and CD56 and was negative for cytokeratin-7 (CK-7), synaptophysin and chromogranin A. The proliferation index (Ki-67) was < 1%. The patient is being followed-up and remains healthy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Solid pseudopapillary tumour is a tumour with low potential of malignancy and with generally favourable prognosis; surgical resection is usually curative.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Barlicki University Hospital, Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Szwedziak
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Barlicki University Hospital, Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Durczyński
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephropathology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Marian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Danilewicz
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Barlicki University Hospital, Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Strzelczyk
keywords: pancreatic tumour; solid pseudopapillary tumour; surgery; tumour markers