[Endocrine tumors of the pancreas: experience in the ABC Medical Center].

Objectives: To analyze presentation, diagnosis and treatment of islet cell tumors at the ABC Medical Center.

Materials And Methods: Medical records of the 7 patients with endocrine tumors diagnosed between 1995 and 2005 were reviewed and analyzed, with emphasis to clinical, biochemical and radiological characteristics, surgical treatment and outcome.

Results: There were 3 insulinomas, 1 gastrinoma, 1 VIPoma, and 2 non-functioning tumors.

[Solid-cystic pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas: acute post-traumatic presentation. Case report and review of the literature].

Objective: To report an infrequent case of pancreatic pseudopapillary solid-cyst tumor, known as Frantz tumor, discovered after blunt abdominal trauma, and to carry out a review of the literature.

Background: Frantz's tumor is a very uncommon low-grade malignant papillary-cystic neoplasm of the pancreas that is relatively frequent in young black women and was first described by Frantz in 1959.

Case Report: We present the case of a 15-years-old female patient who, 24 h after blunt abdominal trauma, came to the emergency room with intense abdominal and atypical pain and a palpable mass in the left upper quadrant.