Uncommon pancreatic neoplasms

Abstract

Uncommon tumors of the pancreas are of increasing interest for clinicians: cross imaging techniques development makes it possible to detect small lesions in the pancreatic gland of asymptomatic patients, and in the last decades a more detailed and specific pathological classification definitivelyopened an unexpected world of more or less rare pancreatic tumors. As a matter of fact, nowadays most surgical procedures deal with these so called uncommon pancreatic tumors such as cystic, endocrine and others unfrequent histotypes, and many patientsexperiencing an accidental discovery of this type of tumor need therefore a specialistic evaluation. The concept behind this volume is the need to give the correct clinical relevance to these 'uncommon' tumors, that are ranked at the first place among pancreatic tumors, and that are definitively curable with a multimodal approach. Aim of the book is therefore to get clinicians closer to these pathologies, describing their complexity and the current state of the art in diagnostic, therapeutic and pathological classification strategy, thus providing them with the tools for a modern and updated clinical management of these patients. Cystic Pancreatic Neoplasms -- Classification / Giuseppe Zamboni -- Serous Cystic Neoplasms / Giuseppe Malleo, Giuseppe Zamboni, Marina Paini, Giovanni Marchegiani -- Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms / Giovanni Marchegiani, Riccardo Manfredi, Giuseppe Malleo, Isabella Frigerio -- Solid-pseudopapillary, Acinar, and Other Cystic Neoplasms / Marina Paini, Giuseppe Zamboni, Riccardo Manfredi, Salvatore Paiella, Giuseppe Malleo -- Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms / Isabella Frigerio, Giuseppe Zamboni, Riccardo Manfredi, Antonio Pea, Silvia Pennacchio -- The Role of the Oncologist in the Diagnosis and Management of Malignant Cystic Neoplasms / Alessandra Auriemma, Davide Melisi, Giampaolo Tortora -- Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Neoplasms -- Epidemiology and Clinical Presentation / Maria Vittoria Davì, Marco Toaiari, Giuseppe Francia -- Pathology and Genetics / Aldo Scarpa, Vincenzo Corbo -- Imaging / Roberto Pozzi Mucelli, Giovanni Foti, Luigi Romano -- Surgical Therapy / Rossella Bettini, Stefano Partelli, Stefano Crippa, Letizia Boninsegna, Massimo Falconi -- Functional Imaging and Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy / Maria Chiara Ambrosetti, Duccio Volterrani, Federica Guidoccio, Lisa Bodei -- Targeted and Other Non-receptor-mediated Therapies / Sara Cingarlini, Chiara Trentin, Elisabetta Grego, Giampaolo Tortora -- Uncommon Pancreatic Solid Neoplasms -- Rare Variants of Ductal Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas / Paolo Regi, Marco Dal Molin, Federica Pedica, Paola Capelli, Mirko D'Onofrio -- Rare Primary Tumors of the Pancreas / Marco Dal Molin, Paola Capelli, Mirko D'Onofrio, Ivana Cataldo, Giovanni Marchegiani -- Rare Secondary Tumors of the Pancreas / Giovanni Butturini, Marco Inama, Marco Dal Molin, Mirko D'Onofrio, Davide Melisi -- Primary Non-epithelial Tumors of the Pancreas / Marco Dal Molin, Paola Capelli -- Tumor-like Lesions of the Pancreas / Luca Frulloni, Antonio Amodio, Italo Vantini, Marco Dal Molin, Marco Inama.