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Enhancing Intra-pancreatic Nodule: Simple or Sinister?

Maheswaran Viyannan, Suganya Palanisamy, Devanand Balalakshmoji, Balu Kuppusamy, Chaitra Venkataswamy

Focal lesions with in the pancreas are generally alarming for the clinician for the fear of the lesion being neoplasm. Though it is an uncommon entity, intra-pancreatic accessory spleen is important as far as recognition and appropriate confirmatory diagnostic imaging are concerned to avoid an unnecessary surgery for a misdiagnosed pancreatic tumor. We present a case that underwent distal pancreatectomy for a suspected pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor which turned out to be intra-pancreatic splenunculus.