An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor

Ilias Galanis; Georgios Floros; Magdalini Simou; Georgios Kyriakopoulos; Georgios Stylianidis

doi:10.7759/cureus.26007

An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor

Cureus. 2022 Jun 16;14(6):e26007. doi: 10.7759/cureus.26007. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Ilias Galanis¹, Georgios Floros¹, Magdalini Simou¹, Georgios Kyriakopoulos², Georgios Stylianidis¹

Affiliations

¹ 2nd Department of Surgery, Evaggelismos General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
² Department of Pathology, Evaggelismos General Hospital, Athens, GRC.

Abstract

Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare malignant type of germ cell tumor (GCT). Extragonadal yolk sac tumor is a very rare entity. We report the case of a 33-year-old male with a pancreatic mass, which proved to be a primary yolk sac tumor, arising in the pancreas.

Keywords: extragonadal germ cell tumor; germ cell tumor; pancreas; pancreatic tumor; yolk sac tumor.

Publication types

Case Reports