Case Report

Pancreatic Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumour Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Table 1

Reported cases of pancreas PEComas and symptoms at diagnosis.

CaseSexAgePositionSize (mm)Symptoms

1Zamboni et al. (1996) [2]F60Body20Abdominal pain
2Heywood et al. (2004) [4]F74Head45Abdominal pain
3Ramuz et al. (2005) [5]F31Body15Abdominal pain
4 Périgny et al. (2008) [6]F46Body17Diarrhea
5Hirabayashi et al. (2009) [7]F47Head17Abdominal pain
6Baez et al. (2009) [8]F60Body32Bulge in right upper quadrant
7 Zemet et al. (2011) [9]M49Head32Fever, cough, and malaise
8Nagata et al. (2011) [10]M52Head40Abdominal pain
9 Finzi et al. (2012) [11]F62Head25No symptoms
10 Al-Haddad et al. (2013) [12]F38Uncinate process18Abdominal pain
11Okuwaki et al. (2013) [13]F43Body100Abdominal pain
12Our patientF17Head42Melena

12 patients10F/2MMean age 48
(range 17–74)
Body: 5
Head: 6
Uncinate
process: 1
Mean 36 mm
(range 15–100 mm)
Abdominal pain: 7 
Bulge: 1 
Nonspecific
symptoms: 2 
GI
bleeding: 1 
No symptoms: 1