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Published on: September 24, 2020
Ectopic pancreas in gallbladder. Clinical significance, diagnostic and therapeutic implications
Elena Margarita Sanchiz Cárdenas1, Rocío Soler Humanes2, Ana I Lavado Fernández2
1Cirugía General y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Virgen de la Victoria de Málaga, España.
Abstract:
Ectopic or heterotopic pancreas is defined as the presence of pancreatic tissue in an anatomical place not related to the pancreas, being it most frequent locations the stomach and small bowel. Its finding in the gallbladder is exceptional. Since the first case was reported by Otschkin in 1916, about 30 cases have been described in literature. We report the case of a 43 years-old male patient who had an urgent laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis, which pathological study showed the existence of chronic cholecystitis with heterotopic pancreatic tissue in the gallbladder wall.
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