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A case of pancreatoblastoma prenatally diagnosed as intraperitoneal cyst

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Pancreatoblastoma in childhood is a very rare malignant tumor, but is considered to have a relatively good prognosis because of its low metastatic potential. We report 1-day-old female infant who was recently found to have an intraabdominal cyst on prenatal ultrasound examination. The tumor was a unilocular, cystic mass without invasion or metastasis to other organs, allowing total resection. It was diagnosed postnatally with pancreatoblastoma.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan

    Michihiro Sugai, Norihisa Kimura, Minoru Umehara & Hirohumi Munakata

  2. Department of Pathology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan

    Nobuhisa Yajima & Soroku Yagihashi

  3. Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Gunther Klöppel

  4. 53 Honcho Hirosaki, Aomori, 036-8563, Japan

    Michihiro Sugai

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Sugai, M., Kimura, N., Umehara, M. et al. A case of pancreatoblastoma prenatally diagnosed as intraperitoneal cyst. Pediatr Surg Int 22, 845–847 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-006-1733-5

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