Open AccessCYSTADENOCARCINOMA OF THE PANCREAS MANIFESTED AS A SPLENIC CYST
Author(s) -
Matsumoto Masao,
Kawamura Yukako,
Ishiguro Minora,
Nagai Tsunemoto
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1981.tb02020.x
Subject(s) - histogenesis , pathology , spleen , cystadenocarcinoma , pancreas , medicine , pancreatic tumor , metastasis , cyst , lesion , adenocarcinoma , pancreatic cancer , immunohistochemistry , cancer
The case of a 69‐year‐old man with a multicystic splenic tumor was reported. The tumor occupied about half of the spleen. It was composed of multiple cysts and histologically confirmed as a cyst adenocarcinoma. Invasion was observed in the splenic flexure of the colon. A small portion of the pancreatic tail was also involved in the tumor. As to the histogenesis of this “splenic cystic tumor”, two possible viewpoints, that is, a growth as a secondary metastasis of a cystadenocarcinoma of the pancreatic tail, and a development on the basis of an aberrant pancreatic tissue in the spleen, were proposed. Regardless of its histogenetical aspects, such a splenic lesion as the present case seems to occur extremely rarely, and only one instance similar to our case could be found in the literature.