Abstract
A 70-year-old woman with epigastralgia was referred to our hospital because of the pancreatic head tumor that was discovered by abdominal ultrasonography.
Abdominal CT and MRI identified a multilocular cystic lesion approximately 4cm in size that contained a solid component in part in a pancreatic head. The inner regions of the tumor had gradual increase of contrast enhancement.
FDG-PET, accumulation was observed in the tumor and neoplastic lesion was doubted.
When the pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy was performed, a 5×4×5cm tumor was observed in the pancreatic head, and its pathological diagnosis was the mucinous carcinoma of the pancreas, which consisted of mucous nodules of varying sizes, lined with cuboidal-epithelial cells.
The frequency of the mucinous carcinoma of the pancreas is rare, although mucinous carcinoma of the pancreas is usually classified into a subtype of a pancreatic ductal cell carcinoma.
We report a case of mucinous carcinoma of the pancreas, and also discuss clinical characteristics, imaging diagnosis and origin.
