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Lucía Diego García1, Alba Manuel Vazquez1, Emilio Valbuena Durán2
1Cirugía General y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, España.
Abstract:
The intrapancreatic accessory spleen is a congenital entity whose differential diagnosis is mainly raised with neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas. Keeping in mind this unfrequent entity and careful interpretation of the imaging tests, especially magnetic resonance imaging, can give us the key to make a correct definitive diagnosis. Successful diagnosis is important in order to try to avoid diagnostic pancreatectomies that could carry out severe morbidity.
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