[Pancreatoduodenectomy in digestive tract hemorrhage. A case report]

To describe the clinical presentation and treatment of one patient with a neuroendocrine pancreatic neoplasm and gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

Neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors are relatively rare neoplasms. When the tumor does not have endocrine function, clinical manifestations are non-specific and show symptoms when the tumor is quite large. Massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage is an infrequent clinical manifestation of these tumors.

A case of gastrointestinal hemorrhage, which required a pancreaticoduodenectomy to control bleeding of an ulcerated pancreatic head neoplasm, is presented.

Pancreaticoduodenectomy is the procedure of choice to control duodenal massive bleeding secondary to an ulcerated neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas.