1. Acinar Cell Carcinoma with Morphological Change in One Month
- Author
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Michiaki Unno, Yu Tanaka, Tatsuo Hata, Tetsuya Takikawa, Shin Hamada, Atsushi Masamune, Kazuhiro Kikuta, Naoki Yoshida, Ryotaro Matsumoto, Mio Ikeda, Seiji Hongo, Kiyoshi Kume, Yuko Omori, Shin Miura, Takanori Sano, and Toru Furukawa
- Subjects
Male ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,pancreatic cancer ,Case Report ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Pancreatic head ,Epigastric pain ,03 medical and health sciences ,ERCP ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pancreatectomy ,Pancreatic tumor ,Pancreatic cancer ,Internal Medicine ,Medicine ,Humans ,Pancreas ,EUS ,business.industry ,Carcinoma, Acinar Cell ,Pancreatic tail ,Acinar cell carcinoma ,General Medicine ,Necrotic tissue ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Pancreatic Neoplasms ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,pancreatic tumor ,business ,Distal pancreatectomy - Abstract
A 64-year-old man was admitted to our hospital to undergo examination of a pancreatic tumor accompanied by sudden epigastric pain. The tumor had a well-defined oval shape that was mostly less enhanced, with the exception of part of the tumor on the pancreatic head side, on contrast enhanced (CE)-CT. However, CE-CT performed one-month later revealed that the viable part of the tumor grew toward the pancreatic tail with the reduction of necrotic tissue. We performed distal pancreatectomy and the tumor was diagnosed as acinar cell carcinoma (ACC). One important characteristic of ACC is that it may develop morphological changes within a short period of time.
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- 2021