Dermoid Cyst of the Pancreas: A Report of an Unusual Case and a Review of the Literature

Table 1

A presentation of the cases of dermoid cyst of the pancreas found in the literature.

Author	Year	Age	Sex	Size	Localization	Symptoms	Treatment
Kerr AA	1918	55	F	—	Head/body	Gastritis? Dyspepsia?	Marsupialization+ (after 2 months) resection
Dennis WA	1923	33	F	—	Head	Pain and palpable mass	Marsupialization
Decourcy JL	1943	2	F	—	Body	Emesis, vomiting	Enucleation
Iovchec II	1972	8	M	—	Body	Emesis and pain	Drainage
Pomosov DV	1973	6	M	—	Tail	Pain	SPG
Assawamatiyanont S	1977	11	F	9×8×6	Body	Abdominal mass	Enucleation
Lazaro DaSilva A	1984	21	M	—	Body	Painless mass and emesis, constipation	Resection after drainage
Vermeulen	1990	46	M	—	Tail	İncidental	SPG
Mester M	1990	25	F	8×8×8	Head	Abdominal pain	Enucleation
Jacobs JE	1993	57	F	5.9×6.5×6.6	Body	pain and weight losing	Enucleation
Markovsky V	1993	53	F	20×20×11	Body	Abdominal pain	Enucleation
Lacono C	1993	26	F	12×12×12	Head	Pain and fever	DPC
Das PC	1996	4 months	F	9.5×8.5	Body-tail	Abdominal mass at palpation	Enucleation
Lushpai VP	1997	—	—	—	—	—	—
Fernandez-Cebrian JM	1998	74	M	10×8×9	Body-tail	Backache pain	SPG
Strasser G	2002	44	M	7×5×7	Head	Pain	—
Salimi J	2004	21	M	—	Head	Jaundice and weight loss	Enucleation
Seki M	2005	60	F	22×19×14	Body	İncidental	Enucleation
Seki M	2005	57	M	5.5×3.7×3.3	Body	İncidental	PM
Koomalsingh KJ	2006	52	M	3.5×3×2.2	Tail	Pain	SPG
Rıvkıne E	2007	45	F	2.8×1.8×2.7	Head	Abdominal pain	Resection
Tucci G	2007	64	M	8.5×3.0	Tail	İncidental	Pancreatectomy
Yoon WJ	2008	57	M	—	Head	Abdominal pain	—
Zhang AY	2008	67	M	4.6×3×2.2	Body	İncidental	Distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy
Scheele J	2010	40	M	6.4×4.9×3.8	Head-body	Upper abdominal pain	Partial duodenopancreatectomy
Badıa AC	2010	43	F	15×10×10	Body	Epigastric pain and emesis	Partial cystectomy
Ameur B	2011	64	M	10×8	Head	Epigastric pain	Partial cystectomy
Urata T	2012	58	M	—	Tail	Epigastric and dorsal pain	—
Degrate	2012	61	M	—	Uncinate	Asymptomatic	DPC
Lane	2012	63	M	5.7×5.1×4.1	Body	Lower abdominal pain	Resection
Albayrak A	2013	20	F	10×7×5	Head-body	Epigastric pain	Enucleation

SPG: splenopancreatectomic gauche, DPC: duedunopancreatectomy cephalic, PM: pancreatectomy mediane, —: nonspecific.