MONSTROUS RECURRENCE OF SEROUS CYSTADENOM A OF THE PANCREAS

Serous cystadenoma of the pancreas is a rare benign tumor. The diagnos tical management is easy, preoperative histological finding is difficu lt. The surgical relevance is revealed by the fact, that this tumor sh ows a high recurrence rate, especially if a complete resection is not feasible because of a difficult tumor localisation. The whole problema tic nature of this disease is underlined by the following case report, which illustrates that in 5 years 4 surgical interventions because of recurrent symptoms were necessary. Each single operation improved qua lity of life for a different time period, First aim must be the radica l resection of the tumor during primary operation, but this is not alw ays possible because of unfavorable tumor localisation.