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1Department of Paediatric Surgery, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton, UK.
Pediatric Surgery International
|August 31, 2001
Abstract:
Accessory hepatic tissue, unlike accessory splenic and pancreatic tissue, is rare and has a limited and almost exclusively sub diaphragmatic distribution. Fewer than ten cases of intrathoracic ectopic liver have been reported so far in the literature. This paper reports a case that caused a diagnostic dilemma.

