As a consequence, there is limited information on the appropriate management and outcome of these tumours. For this reason a review was conducted of the experience of a large paediatric surgical institution. During a 23-year period, six patients with pancreatic tumours other than nesidioblastosis were treated at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Despite the varied modes of presentation and surgery undertaken, all six patients with surgery alone, with follow-up from 1 to 18 years. These rare paediatric tumours appear to have a good prognosis, even when malignant, and respond well to radical surgical ablation.
Adjuvant therapy appears to be unnecessary.
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