Items tagged “pancreas”
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Pancreas transplant
A pancreas transplant is a major surgical procedure in which a donor pancreas is transplanted into a recipient. The donor pancreas is typically cadaveric, but may rarely be a segment from a living donor 1. The transplant is meant to establish normoglycemia in patients with diabetes mellitus, typ...
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Pancreatic intraductal tubulopapillary neoplasm
Pancreatic intraductal tubulopapillary neoplasms (ITPNs) are rare variants of intraductal papillary neoplasms. Unlike an IPMN, an ITPN does not produce mucin.
Epidemiology
The prevalence is unclear. Small series show no gender predilection and an average age of presentation of 58 years old 1.
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Johanson-Blizzard syndrome
Johanson-Blizzard syndrome is a disorder of ectodermal dysplasia with wide variability in its manifestations. It is thought to have an autosomal recessive inheritance.
Clinical presentation
There is wide variability in the clinical presentation, but common features are:
low birth weight
hypo...
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Acute necrotic collection
Acute necrotic collections (ANCs) are an early, local complication of necrotizing pancreatitis.
Terminology
The following are the latest terms according to the updated Atlanta classification to describe fluid collections associated with acute pancreatitis 1,2:
fluid collections in interstitia...
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Pancreatic atrophy
Pancreatic atrophy is non-specific and is common in elderly patients, although in younger patients it can be a hallmark of pathology. Most commonly it is associated with aging, obesity and end-stage chronic pancreatitis.
It occurs principally with fatty replacement of the pancreas (pancreatic ...
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VIPoma
VIPomas (vasoactive intestinal peptide tumors) are a very rare type of pancreatic endocrine tumors that secrete, and get their name from, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). The clinical syndrome resulting from these tumors is commonly known as WDHA syndrome, an acronym for the cardinal symptom...
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Pancreatic mesenchymal neoplasms
Pancreatic mesenchymal neoplasms, or pancreatic nonepithelial neoplasms, are a group of rare pancreatic neoplasms that arise from the structural elements of the pancreas (nerves, fat, lymph), rather than from the exocrine or endocrine cells of the pancreas. Neoplasms from exocrine and endocrine ...
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Pancreatic lipoma
Pancreatic lipomas are uncommon mesenchymal tumors of the pancreas.
Clinical presentation
Rarely symptomatic, they are most often detected incidentally on cross-sectional imaging for another purpose. If they do cause symptoms, it will typically be those related to regional mass effect from the...
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Pancreatic neurofibroma
Pancreatic neurofibromas are rare nonepithelial neoplasms of the pancreas. They are similar to neurofibromas found elsewhere in the body, and are associated with neurofibromatosis type I.
Clinical presentation
If they do cause symptoms, it will typically be those related to regional mass effe...
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Pancreatic lymphangioma
Pancreatic lymphangiomas are benign lesions that are often found incidentally during cross-sectional imaging for another reason.
For a broader discussion, please refer to the parental article on lymphangioma.
Clinical presentation
More common in adults (in contrast to lymphangiomas in the he...
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Pancreatic PEComa
Pancreatic perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (or "Pancreatic PEComas") are a subtype of the larger family of PEComas. Pancreatic PEComas are very rare with <20 cases described.
Clinical presentation
More common in adults (in contrast to lymphangiomas in the head and neck, which are more com...
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Pancreaticoduodenal arcade
The pancreaticoduodenal arcade refers to an arterial network that links the blood flow of the celiac artery and superior mesenteric artery via the superior and inferior pancreaticoduodenal arteries.
Gross anatomy
Origin
The pancreaticoduodenal arcades originate from the superior pancreaticodu...
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