MR imaging features of solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas in adult and pediatric patients.

Cantisani, Vito; Mortele, Koenraad J; Levy, Angela; Glickman, Jonathan N; Ricci, Paolo; Passariello, Roberto; Ros, Pablo R; Silverman, Stuart G · AJR Am J Roentgenol · 2003

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

This study was conducted to describe the MR imaging features of solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas. Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas, a tumor typically seen in young women, is a large, well-defined, encapsulated lesion with heterogeneous high or low signal intensity on T1-weighted, heterogeneous high signal intensity on T2-weighted, and early peripheral heterogeneous enhancement with progressive fill-in on gadolinium-enhanced dynamic MR imaging. These features help differentiate this rare tumor from other pancreatic neoplasms.

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