Case Report
Pancreatic Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumour Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Table 1
Reported cases of pancreas PEComas and symptoms at diagnosis.
| | Case | Sex | Age | Position | Size (mm) | Symptoms |
| 1 | Zamboni et al. (1996) [2] | F | 60 | Body | 20 | Abdominal pain | 2 | Heywood et al. (2004) [4] | F | 74 | Head | 45 | Abdominal pain | 3 | Ramuz et al. (2005) [5] | F | 31 | Body | 15 | Abdominal pain | 4 |
Périgny et al. (2008) [6] | F | 46 | Body | 17 | Diarrhea | 5 | Hirabayashi et al. (2009) [7] | F | 47 | Head | 17 | Abdominal pain | 6 | Baez et al. (2009) [8] | F | 60 | Body | 32 | Bulge in right upper quadrant | 7 |
Zemet et al. (2011) [9] | M | 49 | Head | 32 | Fever, cough, and malaise | 8 | Nagata et al. (2011) [10] | M | 52 | Head | 40 | Abdominal pain | 9 |
Finzi et al. (2012) [11] | F | 62 | Head | 25 | No symptoms | 10 |
Al-Haddad et al. (2013) [12] | F | 38 | Uncinate process | 18 | Abdominal pain | 11 | Okuwaki et al. (2013) [13] | F | 43 | Body | 100 | Abdominal pain | 12 | Our patient | F | 17 | Head | 42 | Melena |
| | 12 patients | 10F/2M | Mean 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 |
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