Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 11
Case Report
Ectopic pancreas in gallbladder. Clinical significance, diagnostic and therapeutic implications

701-703

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3627/2014

Elena Margarita Sanchiz Cárdenas, Rocío Soler Humanes, Ana I. Lavado Fernández, Rafael Díaz Nieto, Miguel A. Suárez Muñoz,

Abstract
Ectopic or heterotopic pancreas is defined as the presence of pancreatic tissue in an anatomical place not related to the pancreas, being it most frequent locations the stomach and small bowel. Its finding in the gallbladder is exceptional. Since the first case was reported by Otschkin in 1916, about 30 cases have been described in literature. We report the case of a 43 years-old male patient who had an urgent laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis, which pathological study showed the existence of chronic cholecystitis with heterotopic pancreatic tissue in the gallbladder wall.
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Sanchiz Cárdenas E, Soler Humanes R, Lavado Fernández A, Díaz Nieto R, Suárez Muñoz M. Ectopic pancreas in gallbladder. Clinical significance, diagnostic and therapeutic implications. 3627/2014


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Received: 25/11/2014

Accepted: 16/02/2015

Online First: 30/06/2015

Published: 30/10/2015

Article revision time: 81 days

Article Online First time: 217 days

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