Bravo-Taxa M, Luque Vásquez-Vásquez C, Guerrero-Quiroga M, Taxa-Rojas L. [Colloid Carcinoma of the pancreas and synchronous gastrointestinal stromal tumour of stomach. A case report and review of the literature].
Rev Esp Patol 2022;
55:259-266. [PMID:
36154734 DOI:
10.1016/j.patol.2021.02.004]
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Abstract
Colloid carcinoma (CC) is a rare histological type of adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic duct and is characterized by the presence of large lakes of extracellular mucin containing neoplastic cells. Its 5 year prognosis is more favourable than that of ductal, tubular or not otherwise specified (NOS) adenocarcinomas. We present the case of a 74-year-old woman with a thin walled, multicystic lesion in the tail of the pancreas, radiologically suggestive of a serous cystadenoma as opposed to a mucinous neoplasm. Surgery revealed a 10 x 6 cm lesion invading the splenic hilum and transverse mesocolon. Two nodes on the wall of the gastric fundus were also removed. Histopathology showed the pancreatic tumour to be a colloid carcinoma with a synchronous gastrointestinal stromal tumour of the gastric fundus.
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