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Axial abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomographic scan showing a large tumour in the region of the body of the pancreas
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The CT scan (Figure 1) showed a large tumour (6cm in largest diameter) in the body and tail of pancreas with no evidence of metastasis.
Tumour resected from the body and tail of the pancreas
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The body and tail of the pancreas including the tumour were resected (Figure 2).
Histological examination of the tumour showed a well circumscribed mass (center)
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Histological examination of the specimen (Figure 3) showed a well circumscribed ovoid tumour 60mm x 50mm across.
The synaptophysin stain was strongly positive
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Synaptophysin was strongly positive (Figure 4), CD10 was negative, Ki-67 was less than 2% positive and the mitotic count was between 2-20 per 10 hpf.
Axial computed tomographic scan performed two years after resection showed no evidence of tumour recurrence
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A CT Scan performed 2 years after surgery (Figure 5) showed no evidence of tumour recurrence.