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Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas mimicking malignant adrenal pheochromocytoma

Peter D. Metcalfe¹, Rekha Gupta², Richard W. Norman¹

1 Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2 Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Address correspondence to Richard W Norman, MD, Department of Urology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre, Victoria General Site, Victoria Building, 5 South, Room 293, 1278 Tower Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2Y9 Canada

Canadian Journal of Urology 2004, 11(2), 2223-2225.

Abstract

We report a 75-year old woman with clinical, laboratory and imaging characteristics suggestive of a malignant left adrenal pheochromocytoma with invasion of the tail of the pancreas. The mass involving the tail of the pancreas and the left adrenal was excised Detailed histological diagnosis revealed that the lesion was a rare exocrine tumor of the pancreas.

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