Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

Abstract

BACKGROUND:
Solid-pseudopapillary or solid-cystic papillary tumors are rare tumors of the pancreas which has special characters that they rarely metastasize and the patient usually enjoys long term survival. This is a case report of a fifty years female who had cystic tumor involved the pancreatic tail and she underwent distal pancreatectomy with splenic preservation, the histology study revealed solid pseudopapillary tumor of pancreas