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IAP Slide Seminar Series

Pancreaticobiliary Pathology is made up of 11 cases to be presented as a slide seminar at the 25th International Congress of the IAP, Brisbane, 2004.

Convenors: John Pederson, Gunter Kloeppel and Wilson Tsui

Series editor: Robin A. Cooke

CASE 1: A 43-year-old male had an adrenalectomy for phaeochromocytoma at age 15. A recent CT scan revealed a 2.8 cm diameter mass in the head of the pancreas.
David A. Owen

CASE 2: A 74-year-old Chinese female presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Ultrasonography revealed gallstones and a round liver mass with homogeneous echogenicity and a lobulated border. Hepatic wedge resection and cholecystectomy were performed, which resulted in relief of symptoms.
Wilson Tsui

CASE 3: A 72-year-old male presented with a six-month history of vague upper abdominal pain. An endoscopic-ultrasound procedure was undertaken at which time this aspirate was obtained from the thickened pancreatic head.
Gladwyn Leiman

CASE 4: A 48-year-old male presented with upper abdominal pain and fever, interpreted as being cholangitis. Laboratory data showed elevation of liver enzymes. Imaging demonstrated the presence of dilatation of large intrahepatic bile ducts, some of which contained calculi. A left hepatic lobectomy was performed.
Yasuni Nakanuma

CASE 5: A 64-year-old female presented with abdominal pain and slowly developing pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. Ultrasonography and CT revealed tumorous changes in the head and the body of the pancreas, focusing on the main duct. This finding was confirmed by endosonography.
Gunter Kloeppel

CASE 6: A 43-year-old white female with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus complained of 3-4 weeks of nausea, constipation, and vomiting. Her past medical history was otherwise unremarkable and she had no family history of pancreas cancer. An ERCP showed dilated common bile duct with some intrahepatic duct dilatation. She underwent a Whipple's resection.
Wendy Frankel

CASE 7: A 49-year-old-male presented with painless obstructive jaundice and pruritis. Imaging showed a pancreatic mass and a mass in the left hepatic duct with biliary dilatation. Right hemihepatectomy, distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy were performed for presumed carcinoma.
Catherine Campbell

CASE 8: A 16-year-old female presented with a mass in the right upper quadrant which had been present for 12 months. Three months prior to this she was a front seat passenger in a stationary car which was hit from behind. Since then the mass slowly enlarged and she had dull pain in the right upper quadrant. The pain had gradually increased in intensity. She presented for investigation and was admitted three days later. CT scan three days following admission showed a 9cm well circumscribed, cystic structure which was mobile, pedunculated and retroperitoneal just below the liver. She had a duodenum-conserving Whipple's operation one week after admission.
David Godbolt, Andrina McGivern and Robin Cooke

Authors: John Pedersen & Gunter Kloeppel and Dr. Wilson Tsui

Media: Book, CD

Product code: SA03

ISBN: 1921016019