Lymphoepithelial cyst mimicking pancreatic cancer: a case report and literature review

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Previous case reports of lymphoepithelial cyst in whom FDG-PET was performed

No.	Author	Year	Age	Sex	Serum CA19-9	FDG-PET	EUS-FNA	Preoperative diagnosis	Surgical procedures	Texture of pancreas
No.	Author	Year	Age	Sex	(U/ml)	FDG-PET	EUS-FNA	Preoperative diagnosis	Surgical procedures	Texture of pancreas
1	Maekawa H [17]	2009	58	Male	N/A	Positive	No	Pancreatic cystic neoplasm	Distal pancreatectomy	Normal
3	Yanagimoto H [18]	2013	53	Male	N/A	Negative	Yes	NET, MCN, IPMN	Distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy	Normal
2	Sasaki S [4]	2014	54	Male	28.9	Negative	No	LEC, MCN, pseudocyst	Enucleation	Normal
4	Satoh D [5]	2015	63	Male	85.5	Positive	Yes	Pancreatic cancer	Distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy	Normal
5	Ryu HD [19]	2015	44	Female	3.9	Negative	No	Pancreatic cancer	Distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy	Normal
6	Present case	2021	65	Male	6.1	Positive	No	Pancreatic cancer	Partial pancreatectomy	Chronic abscess