Case Report
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2024. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Clin Cases. Sep 16, 2024; 12(26): 5983-5989
Published online Sep 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i26.5983
Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma of the pancreas: A case report
Meng-Qing Sun, Li-Na Guo, Yan You, Yan-Yu Qiu, Xiao-Dong He, Xian-Lin Han
Meng-Qing Sun, Yan-Yu Qiu, Xiao-Dong He, Xian-Lin Han, Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
Li-Na Guo, Yan You, Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
Author contributions: Sun MQ is responsible for collecting case data, creating illustrations, and writing the manuscript; Guo LN and You Y are responsible for interpreting and analyzing the pathological results; Qiu YY is responsible for manuscript editing; He XD provides technical support and guidance for case management; Han XL provides the case, performs the surgery, and is fully responsible for case management throughout.
Supported by National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding, No. 2022-PUMCH-B-003; National Multidisciplinary Cooperative Diagnosis and Treatment Capacity Building Project for Major Diseases.
Informed consent statement: Informed written consent for the treatment was obtained from the patients.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
CARE Checklist (2016) statement: The authors have read the CARE Checklist (2016), and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CARE Checklist (2016).
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Xian-Lin Han, MD, Professor, Department of General surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 1 Shuai Fu Yuan, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China. hanxianlin@pumch.cn
Received: March 29, 2024
Revised: July 2, 2024
Accepted: July 10, 2024
Published online: September 16, 2024
Processing time: 116 Days and 4 Hours
Core Tip

Core Tip: Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma (SEF) is a rare malignant fibroblastic soft tissue tumor, which is extremely rare in intra-abdominal organs. This article reports a case of SEF in the pancreatic head, presenting its clinical manifestations, preoperative imaging, gross specimen and pathological findings.