Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma of borderline malignancy in a male patient. Case report and review of the literature | Falidas et al. World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2011 9 98 http content 9 1 98 5 2 WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY CASE REPORT Open Access Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma of borderline malignancy in a male patient. Case report and review of the literature 1 2 1 3 Evangelos Falidas Stefanos Konstandoudakis Konstantinos Vlachos Fotios Archontovasilis Stavros Mathioulakis 1 Stavros Boutzouvis1 and Constantinos Villias1 Abstract Background Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma of borderline malignancy represents a rare tumor with unclear histogenesis concerning almost exclusively women. Only two cases concerning male patients have been reported. Case report We herein report a case of a 37 year old man undergone laparotomy for a sizable retroperitoneal tumor resulting after the histological examination to a primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma of borderline malignancy. Conclusion This is the third case of primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma of borderline malignancy in a male patient reported in the literature. The preoperative diagnosis is impossible. Laparotomy constitutes the only diagnostic and curative approach. Background The primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma is a rare tumor that affects almost exclusively women 1 . The preoperative diagnosis is impossible in most of cases because of the rarity the position and the texture of the tumor. We report a case of a 37 year-old male patient with primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma of borderline malignancy this may be the third case registered in the literature. Case report A 37 year old man arrived at the outpatient facilities of our clinic complaining of a remittent pain at the right lateral abdomen and a palpable mass that was constantly growing up during the last twelve months. His medical history included an uneventful appendicectomy in his childhood 27 years ago and spontaneous pneumothorax 15 years ago. By that time he was under medication with
