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ArticleArchives of Iranian medicine2022

Asymtomatic Mass In The Tail Of The Pancreas: Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen (IPAS).

Fatma Yıldırım, Fazli Erdogan, Mehmet Kilic, Melike Rusen Metin

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Article in Archives of Iranian medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Fatma YıldırımDepartment of Pathology, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0003-3887-702X
Fazli ErdoganDepartment of Pathology, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey.
Mehmet KilicDepartment of General Surgery, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey.
Melike Rusen MetinDepartment of Radiology, Medipol University, Pendik Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Abstract

We present a 48-year-old male patient with a mass in the tail of the pancreas on abdominal ultrasonography. The lesion was suspicious for a well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor and spleen preserved distal pancreatectomy surgery was performed. It was diagnosed as intrapancreatic accessory spleen (IPAS) after pathological examination. Accessory spleen is not an infrequent congenital entity caused by the localization of normal splenic tissue in ectopic regions. As it is known, an accessory spleen is a benign entity and does not require surgical treatment or follow-up when detected. However, it is important to recognize IPAS tissue as it may mimic a pancreatic neoplasia when it is located in the pancreas. In this article, we discuss the differential diagnostic possibilities of the IPAS entity.

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ChoristomaPancreatic DiseasesPancreatic NeoplasmsDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansMaleMiddle AgedPancreasSpleenAccessory spleenIntrapancreatic accessory spleenNeuroendocrine tumors

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PMID37543881
PMCPMC13661069

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