Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 3
Letter to the Editor
Xanthogranulomatous pancreatitis: a lesion that mimics pancreatic cancer

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4496/2016

Belén Navarro Navarro, Esteban Sáez González, Juan A. Ortuño,

Abstract
Xanthogranulomatous pancreatitis (XGP) is an extremely rare entity. In most cases, XGP is preoperatively misdiagnosed as a pancreatic neoplasm. The pathogenesis is not well established. To our knowledge, only 15 cases have been reported in the English language literature. Surgical resection was performed before the histologic diagnosis in all published cases. We report the first case of XGP described in Spain, diagnosed by CT-guided biopsy, without requiring surgical resection, in a patient initially diagnosed as having a pancreatic neoplasm.
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Received: 10/06/2016

Accepted: 20/06/2016

Online First: 13/02/2017

Published: 28/02/2017

Article Online First time: 248 days

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