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Unique presentation of heterotopic pancreatic tissue arising from small-bowel mesentery
T Koshinaga1, I Okabe, Y Kurosu
1First Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Ooyaguchi kamimachi 30-1, Itabashi-ku, 173, Tokyo, Japan.
Pediatric Surgery International
|September 24, 2013
Abstract:
Heterotopic pancreatic tissue in the small-bowel mesentery is an extremely rare anomaly: no such case has been reported in the English literature. We report a 5-year-old boy in whom the aberrant tissue formed a retroperitoneal cyst. The condition was further complicated by a ventral pancreatic duct defect. The unique clinical manifestations and difficulty in making the diagnosis are discussed.
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