Uncommon Pancreatic Neoplasms : In collaboration with Massimo Falconi, Roberto Salvia and Giovanni Butturini

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Classification....Pages 3-4 Serous Cystic Neoplasms....Pages 5-13 Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms....Pages 15-21 Solid-pseudopapillary, Acinar, and Other Cystic Neoplasms....Pages 23-31 Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms....Pages 33-52 The Role of the Oncologist in the Diagnosis and Management of Malignant Cystic Neoplasms....Pages 53-57 Front Matter....Pages 59-60 Epidemiology and Clinical Presentation....Pages 61-69 Pathology and Genetics....Pages 71-78 Imaging....Pages 79-107 Surgical Therapy....Pages 109-116 Functional Imaging and Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy....Pages 117-133 Targeted and Other Non-receptor-mediated Therapies....Pages 135-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Rare Variants of Ductal Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas....Pages 149-157 Rare Primary Tumors of the Pancreas....Pages 159-174 Rare Secondary Tumors of the Pancreas....Pages 175-188 Primary Non-epithelial Tumors of the Pancreas....Pages 189-192 Tumor-like Lesions of the Pancreas....Pages 193-206 Back Matter....Pages 207-208 Annotation Cross-imaging enables detection of small pancreatic lesions that now prompt the majority of surgical procedures in asymptomatic patients. This volume is an expert guide to the latest evidence and knowledge of these uncommon tumours of the pancreas