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Published on: January 3, 2020
Intrapancreatic accessory spleen
J Szumiło1, A Fronczek, S Bukharin
1Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland. jszumilo@wp.pl
Abstract:
A case of accessory spleen located in the tail of the pancreas in a stillbirth male foetus is reported. The congenital anomaly was revealed at autopsy. The intrapancreatic spleen was well demarcated and was composed of red and white pulp; however, same pancreatic ducts were intermingled with the splenic parenchyma. As well as the intrapancreatic lesion another minute accessory spleen was also found at the hilum of the proper organ. Since a lack of morphological features of trisomy 13 syndrome were found in the foetus, the ectopic spleens were regarded as incidental findings.
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