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Article: Pseudopapillary solid cystic tumor arising from an extrapancreatic site.
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Pseudopapillary solid cystic tumor (PSCT) is a distinctive tumor of the pancreas that usually occurs in adolescent girls and young women. (1-8) The tumor is histologically characterized by a combination of solid and pseudopapillary growth patterns of tumor cells with abundant pale-to-eosinophilic cytoplasm. Patients with this tumor have favorable prognoses after surgical resection. This type of tumor rarely arises in extrapancreatic sites, such as the retroperitoneum, mesocolon, and liver. (1,3,7,8) A case of PSCT arising in the omentum of a 46-year-old woman is presented with immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and flow cytometric analyses because the tumor caused ...