Presumably due to failure of embryonic pancreatic ducts to regress, when they are replaced by permanent ones, that leads to their obstruction and cyst formation in utero
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Top Differential Diagnoses
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The enlarged pancreatic head mass was bisected to reveal a unilocular cyst
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This low-power view of a congenital pancreatic cyst shows a unilocular cyst lined by a single layer of attenuated epithelium
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The cystic space in a congenital pancreatic cyst is typically lined by a single layer of flattened, cuboidal or columnar nonmucinous epithelium
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TERMINOLOGY
Synonyms
Definitions
• Rare, benign, congenital, epithelial-lined intrapancreatic cyst that does not communicate with ductal system
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