Papillar-cystic tumor of pancreas: A rare disease of adolescent females

Papillary-cystic tumors of the pancreas, so-called Frantz tumors, are very rare. They occur mainly in adolescent and young adult females. The tumors a re neoplasms of low malignancy with infrequent metastases. After complete s urgical resection the prognosis is usually excellent. For that reason it is important to make the differential diagnosis between papillary-cystic tumo r of pancreas and other pancreatic tumors. We describe a case of the papill ary-cystic tumor of the pancreas in a 12-year-old girl to illustrate the cl inical and radiological characteristics of this tumor.