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Intrapancreatic accessory spleen
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posted on 2017-12-05, 09:03 authored by Marcelo Protásio dos Santos, Aline Pacheco de Rezende, Paulo Vicente dos Santos Filho, José Eduardo Gonçalves, Fernando Bray Beraldo, Adriano Pereira SampaioABSTRACT An asymptomatic 79-year-old woman, with incidental finding on abdominal ultrasound of a solid nodule in the tail of the pancreas. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a 12mm solid tumor. The suggested diagnosis was pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. The pathological examination showed an intrapancreatic splenic tissue. This is a rare ectopic location of spleen tissue and it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pancreatic solid tumors.
