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Ectopic pancreas presenting as a submucosal gastric tumor: case report and literature review

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Ectopic pancreas is of little clinical significance. We report a case of ectopic pancreas in a 2-year-old girl presenting as a heterogeneous solid submucosal tumor of the posterior wall of antrum proximal to the pylorus, treated by distal gastrectomy and Billroth I reconstruction. We reviewed 15 cases in the English literature.

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  1. Department of Pediatric General and Urogenital Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan

    Shumpei Goto, Tadaharu Okazaki, Hiroyuki Koga, Go Miyano, Geoffrey J. Lane & Atsuyuki Yamataka

  2. Department of Pathology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Atsushi Arakawa & Takashi Yao

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Goto, S., Okazaki, T., Koga, H. et al. Ectopic pancreas presenting as a submucosal gastric tumor: case report and literature review. Pediatr Surg Int 27, 107–109 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-010-2717-z

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