Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature

In a large series of nonselected autopsy investigations an accessory spleen was found in 10–30%. The second most common site is the pancreatic tail (17%). We report a case of intrapancreatic accessory spleen misdiagnosed as a nonsecreting neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas. Nuclear scintigraphy ma...

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Autores principales: Kurmann, Anita, Michel, Jean-Marie, Stauffer, Edouard, Egger, Bernhard
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2010
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Published: July 2010
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20805946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000318857
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author Kurmann, Anita
Michel, Jean-Marie
Stauffer, Edouard
Egger, Bernhard
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Michel, Jean-Marie
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description In a large series of nonselected autopsy investigations an accessory spleen was found in 10–30%. The second most common site is the pancreatic tail (17%). We report a case of intrapancreatic accessory spleen misdiagnosed as a nonsecreting neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas. Nuclear scintigraphy may provide the definitive diagnosis of an intrapancreatic spleen and therefore prevent patients from unnecessary major surgery.
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spelling pubmed-29294172010-08-30 Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature Kurmann, Anita Michel, Jean-Marie Stauffer, Edouard Egger, Bernhard Case Rep Gastroenterol Published: July 2010 In a large series of nonselected autopsy investigations an accessory spleen was found in 10–30%. The second most common site is the pancreatic tail (17%). We report a case of intrapancreatic accessory spleen misdiagnosed as a nonsecreting neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas. Nuclear scintigraphy may provide the definitive diagnosis of an intrapancreatic spleen and therefore prevent patients from unnecessary major surgery. S. Karger AG 2010-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2929417/ /pubmed/20805946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000318857 Text en Copyright © 2010 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: July 2010
Kurmann, Anita
Michel, Jean-Marie
Stauffer, Edouard
Egger, Bernhard
Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen Misdiagnosed as a Nonsecreting Endocrine Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort intrapancreatic accessory spleen misdiagnosed as a nonsecreting endocrine tumor: case report and review of the literature
topic Published: July 2010
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20805946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000318857
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