Case Report
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World J Clin Oncol. Feb 10, 2017; 8(1): 91-95
Published online Feb 10, 2017. doi: 10.5306/wjco.v8.i1.91
Difficult endoscopic diagnosis of a pancreatic plasmacytoma: Case report and review of literature
Nicolas Williet, Radwan Kassir, Muriel Cuilleron, Olivier Dumas, Leslie Rinaldi, Karine Augeul-Meunier, Michèle Cottier, Xavier Roblin, Jean-Marc Phelip
Nicolas Williet, Olivier Dumas, Leslie Rinaldi, Xavier Roblin, Jean-Marc Phelip, Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, 42270 Saint-Priest en Jarez, France
Radwan Kassir, Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, 42270 Saint-Priest en Jarez, France
Muriel Cuilleron, Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, 42270 Saint-Priest en Jarez, France
Karine Augeul-Meunier, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Cancérologie Lucien Neuwirth, 42271 Saint-Priest en Jarez, France
Michèle Cottier, Department of Cytology, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, 42270 Saint-Priest en Jarez, France
Author contributions: Williet N, Kassir R, Roblin X and Phelip JM designed this work; Williet N wrote the paper; Williet N performed the systematic review; Cuilleron M, Dumas O and Rinaldi L contributed equally to this work; Augeul-Meunier K edited the first version text and provided her onco-hematologic regard on this case; Cottier M wrote cytology part of the text and provided cytological pictures.
Institutional review board statement: This case report was exempt from the internal Review Board standards of the Hepato-gastroenterology department managed by Pr Jean-Marc Phelip, at University of Saint-Etienne in Saint-Priest en Jarez.
Informed consent statement: The patient who is involved in the present case report gave his verbal informed consent before his death, authorizing use and disclosure of his protected health information.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None.
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Correspondence to: Dr. Nicolas Williet, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, Avenue Albert Raimond, 42270 Saint-Priest en Jarez, France. nwilliet@yahoo.fr
Telephone: +33-4-77829029
Received: October 10, 2016
Peer-review started: October 11, 2016
First decision: November 30, 2016
Revised: December 6, 2016
Accepted: December 27, 2016
Article in press: December 28, 2016
Published online: February 10, 2017
Core Tip

Core tip: We wrote an interesting case report about a pancreatic plasmacytoma for which diagnosis, including endoscopic diagnosis, was a challenge. In a second part, a systematic pubmed search was performed from 1950 to June 2016, reporting characteristics and route to diagnosis of 63 similar cases reports! Strengths of our paper are the original route to diagnosis (by a simple ultrasound guided paracentesis, after failed of the endoscopic route) and our literature search which is particularly exhaustive: we are first to identify more 20 case similar reports (63!!) and their characteristics.