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The case of a 16-year-old boy with an intrapancreatic accessory spleen presenting as a rapidly growing pancreatic mass after splenectomy for splenomegaly due to hereditary spherocytosis is reported herein. When he was 15 years old, the patient visited at a hospital due to jaundice and radiological examinations showed a huge spleen with a 2-cm mass near or in the pancreatic tail. Sonazoid-enhanced ultrasonography showed hypervascularity in the mass located near the pancreatic tail, which was suspicious for an accessory spleen. During splenectomy by laparotomy, the mass could not be found by inspection or intraoperative ultrasonography. One year after the splenectomy, the mass grew rapidly to 4 cm. Laparoscopic surgery was performed to aid in the differential diagnosis of the mass, and a laparoscopic ultrasonogram revealed that the mass was located in the pancreatic tail. The patient underwent laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and was discharged uneventfully on the 11th postoperative day.
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PMID:An intrapancreatic accessory spleen presenting as a rapidly growing pancreatic mass after splenectomy in a patient with hereditary spherocytosis: a case report and literature review. 2949 55