A Case of Heterotopic Pancreatic Tissue in the Gallbladder with Early Gastric Cancer

Hitoshi Iiyama, Yasushi Nakane, Kentaro Inoue, Mutsuya Sato, Keiji Akehira, Shigeo Okamura, Koshiro Hioki, Noriko Sakaida*, Akiharu Okamura*

The Second Department of Surgery and Department of Pathology*, Kansai Medical University

A 68-year-old woman was found to have an abnormal shadow of the stomach by upper gastrointestinal series at an annual physical examination. She was diagnosed as having gastric cancer by upper endoscopy. Abdominal ultrasonograply and a CT scan also revealed a polyp in the neck of the gallbladder. She underwent gastrectomy and cholecystectomy. A lesion in the gallbladder, 5×5 mm in diameter, was a subserous tumor. Pathohistological examination of the excised specimen revealed heterotopic pancreatic tissue of the Heinrich I type.

Key words
heterotopic pancreatic tissue, gallbladder

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Hitoshi Iiyama The Second Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University
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Accepted
September 16, 1998

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