Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report

BACKGROUND: Splenopancreatic fusion is a rare anomaly that is often associated with trisomy 13. Its diagnosis can be important in patients scheduled to undergo distal pancreatectomy or splenectomy, to avoid possible intraoperative or postoperative complications. CASE PRESENTATION: An 82-year-old Jap...

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Autores principales: Omeri, Ahmad Khalid, Matsumoto, Shunro, Kiyonaga, Maki, Takaji, Ryo, Yamada, Yasunari, Ando, Yumiko, Mori, Hiromu, Uchida, Hiroki, Iwashita, Yukio, Ohta, Masayuki, Inomata, Masafumi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28843273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1391-3
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author Omeri, Ahmad Khalid
Matsumoto, Shunro
Kiyonaga, Maki
Takaji, Ryo
Yamada, Yasunari
Ando, Yumiko
Mori, Hiromu
Uchida, Hiroki
Iwashita, Yukio
Ohta, Masayuki
Inomata, Masafumi
author_facet Omeri, Ahmad Khalid
Matsumoto, Shunro
Kiyonaga, Maki
Takaji, Ryo
Yamada, Yasunari
Ando, Yumiko
Mori, Hiromu
Uchida, Hiroki
Iwashita, Yukio
Ohta, Masayuki
Inomata, Masafumi
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description BACKGROUND: Splenopancreatic fusion is a rare anomaly that is often associated with trisomy 13. Its diagnosis can be important in patients scheduled to undergo distal pancreatectomy or splenectomy, to avoid possible intraoperative or postoperative complications. CASE PRESENTATION: An 82-year-old Japanese man was referred to our hospital for further evaluation and treatment for a solitary hepatocellular carcinoma based on liver cirrhosis. Triple-phase contrast-enhanced multidetector-row computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a splenopancreatic fusion as well as a solitary hepatocellular carcinoma in segment VIII of his liver. CONCLUSIONS: Fusion of the pancreatic tail and spleen is a rare and asymptomatic anomaly. Its detection can be improved by the use of multidetector computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging.
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spelling pubmed-55723072017-08-30 Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report Omeri, Ahmad Khalid Matsumoto, Shunro Kiyonaga, Maki Takaji, Ryo Yamada, Yasunari Ando, Yumiko Mori, Hiromu Uchida, Hiroki Iwashita, Yukio Ohta, Masayuki Inomata, Masafumi J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Splenopancreatic fusion is a rare anomaly that is often associated with trisomy 13. Its diagnosis can be important in patients scheduled to undergo distal pancreatectomy or splenectomy, to avoid possible intraoperative or postoperative complications. CASE PRESENTATION: An 82-year-old Japanese man was referred to our hospital for further evaluation and treatment for a solitary hepatocellular carcinoma based on liver cirrhosis. Triple-phase contrast-enhanced multidetector-row computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a splenopancreatic fusion as well as a solitary hepatocellular carcinoma in segment VIII of his liver. CONCLUSIONS: Fusion of the pancreatic tail and spleen is a rare and asymptomatic anomaly. Its detection can be improved by the use of multidetector computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. BioMed Central 2017-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5572307/ /pubmed/28843273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1391-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Omeri, Ahmad Khalid
Matsumoto, Shunro
Kiyonaga, Maki
Takaji, Ryo
Yamada, Yasunari
Ando, Yumiko
Mori, Hiromu
Uchida, Hiroki
Iwashita, Yukio
Ohta, Masayuki
Inomata, Masafumi
Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report
title Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report
title_full Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report
title_fullStr Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report
title_short Fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report
title_sort fusion anomaly of the pancreatic tail and spleen: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28843273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1391-3
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