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Abstract

Introduction


Solid and cystic papillary tumors of the pancreas mostly occur in young women. These tumors are usually well demarcated from the surrounding parenchyma. As a result, they can be easily removed by surgery completely which is associated with an excellent prognosis. However, some tumors can invade adjacent non-neoplastic pancreatic parenchyma or produce vascular or perineural invasion.1 Also some of these tumors can recur locally,2 sometimes as long as 3 to 10 years after original surgical resection and therefore long term follow up is important.3 Although very rare, there are several reports of these tumors metastasizing to liver and omentum.4-8 These studies indicate that although the large majority of papillary solid and cystic tumors of the pancreas behave in a benign fashion and have an excellent prognosis, they muststill be considered at least as "borderline" tumors1 and carefully followed up.
We report a patient with a solid and cystic papillary tumor of the pancreas with metastases to omentum and liver.