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The literature contains five single case reports of pancreatic schwannoma—two of the five occurred in patients with von Recklinghausen’s disease, and three of the five proved malignant. Within a 3-month period, we resected benign pancreatic schwannomas in two patients without von Recklinghausen’s disease. Both patients presented with pain that led to the discovery of a complex pancreatic mass on abdominal CT scan. Pancreatic schwannoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of cystic or solid pancreatic abnormalities on imaging studies.
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Almo, K.M., Traverso, L.W. Pancreatic schwannoma: An uncommon but important entity. J Gastrointest Surg 5, 359–363 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1091-255X(01)80062-7
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