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Rare pancreatic tumours in children (other than nesidioblastosis)
A Mammen1, V Kalidasan, S W Beasley
1Department of General Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Background:
The rarity of pancreatic tumours other than nesidioblastosis in children is such that the experience of any one surgeon or institution is small. As a consequence, there is limited information on the appropriate management and outcome of these tumours. For this reason a review was conducted of the experience of a large paediatric surgical institution.
Methods:
During a 23-year period, six patients with pancreatic tumours other than nesidioblastosis were treated at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.
Results:
Despite the varied modes of presentation and surgery undertaken, all six patients with surgery alone, with follow-up from 1 to 18 years. Two of the tumours were malignant; the remaining four being islet cell adenomata. No form of adjuvant treatment (chemotherapy or radiotherapy) was used.
Conclusion:
These rare paediatric tumours appear to have a good prognosis, even when malignant, and respond well to radical surgical ablation. Adjuvant therapy appears to be unnecessary.
