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Unique presentation of heterotopic pancreatic tissue arising from small-bowel mesentery

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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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  1. First Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Ooyaguchi kamimachi 30-1, Itabashi-ku, 173, Tokyo, Japan

    Tsugumichi Koshinaga, Ikuo Okabe & Yasuhiko Kurosu

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Koshinaga, T., Okabe, I. & Kurosu, Y. Unique presentation of heterotopic pancreatic tissue arising from small-bowel mesentery. Pediatr Surg Int 11, 182–184 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00183762

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