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. 2021 Aug 27;14(6):1756–1765. doi: 10.1007/s12328-021-01507-2

Table 1.

Reports of primary pancreatic follicular lymphoma

Author Year Ref n Age Sex Location Size (cm) Symptoms Stage (Lugano) Diagnostic method EUS-FNA passes Failed methods Treatment Outcome
Prayer 1992 [5] 4a N/A N/A N/A 6–12 N/A N/A Surgery or biopsy N/A N/A
Behrns 1994 [6] 3b N/A N/A N/A 8–12 N/A IE Surgery Biliary bypass, gastroenterostomy Survived
N/A N/A N/A 8–12 N/A IE Surgical biopsy Radiation Survived
N/A N/A N/A 8–12 N/A IIE Surgery Gastroenterostomy, chemoradiotherapy Survived
Bouvet 1998 [7] 1 72 M Head 5 Fatigue IE Surgical biopsy Chemotherapy (CHOP-bleomycin), radiation CR
Koniaris 2000 [8] 1 63 M Head NA None IIE Surgery (PD) Surgery (PD) CR
Nishimura 2001 [9] 2 63 M Head NA Fatigue IE Surgery Surgery, chemotherapy CR
82 M Head NA Pain IE Autopsy None Died of disease
Volmar 2004 [10] 3 78 M Head 5.4 N/A N/A EUS-FNA 8

CT-FNA

US-FNA

N/A N/A
51 M Head 14 N/A N/A EUS-FNA, CT-FNA 1 N/A N/A
57 F Head 4.3 N/A N/A CT-FNA 6 EUS-FNA N/A N/A
Grimison 2006 [11] 1 56 M Head 5 Dyspepsia, weight loss IIE Laparotomy Radiation, chemotherapy (CVP, rituximab) CR
Sata 2007 [12] 1 58 M Head 8 Pain IIE Laparotomy Surgery, radiation CR
Malin 2010 [2] 2c N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Radiation (1)

Chemotherapy (1)

N/A
Ravi 2010 [13] 1 73 F Head 6 Jaundice IIE CT-FNA EUS-FNA (pancreas and lymph nodes) Chemotherapy (R-CHOP) N/A
Alexander 2011 [14] 1 61 M Head 5 Jaundice, fatigue, weight loss IIE Surgery (PD) EUS-FNA (not attempted due to intervening vessels) Surgery, chemotherapy (R-CHOP 6 cycles) CR
Shirai 2015 [15] 1 71 F Body 5 Pain IIE Surgery (DP) EUS-FNA (not attempted due to hypervascularity) Surgery, chemotherapy N/A
Boninsegnad 2018 [16] 5 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Sallapan 2018 [17] 1 75 M Head 5 Jaundice IIE Surgery (PD) N/A N/A
Facchinellid 2020 [4] 4 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Surgery (1) Surgery (1), Chemotherapy (BR, 2), None (1) N/A
Our cases 2021 2 67 M Head (multiple) 4 None IIE EUS-FNA 2 Chemotherapy (GB, G maintenance) CR
70 M Body, tail (multiple) 1.5 None IIIE Laparoscopy 4, 4, 8 EUS-FNA Chemotherapy (GB, G maintenance) CR

CR complete response, CT-FNA computed tomography-guided fine-needle spiration, DP distal pancreatectomy, EUS-FNA Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration, G obinutuzumab, GB obinutuzumab/bendamustine, PD pancreaticoduodenectomy, US-FNA ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration

aThree cases of centrocytic/centroblastic lymphoma and one case of centrocytic lymphoma based on the Kiel classification

bTwo cases of follicular mixed cell lymphoma and one case of follicular large cell lymphoma

cOne other case included in the report (excluded from this analysis) was diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a focus of follicular lymphoma, grade 3

dPossible overlap due to overlap in reporting institutions