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RETROPERITONEAL DERMOID PRESENTING AS AN INFECTED PANCREATIC CYST
Author(s) -
Dewar Grant,
Arnold Muoi,
Li Arthur K. C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1990.tb07410.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dermoid cyst , differential diagnosis , bacteroides fragilis , pathological , teratoma , surgery , general surgery , radiology , pathology , biology , bacteria , genetics
Bacteroides fragilis infection of a juxtapancreatic benign cystic retroperitoneal teratoma in a 28 year old Chinese male is reported. Preliminary drainage was followed by excision. The radiological and pathological findings of this rare tumour are reported with emphasis on the differential diagnosis which includes inflammatory and neoplastic pancreatic cysts.