Case Report
Maheswaran Viyannan, Suganya P
Abstract
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.