Case report of retroperitoneal ectopic pancreas with adrenal adenoma

Zhaochen Sun; Tao Chen; Xuefeng Zhu; Jie Geng; Chaofan Sui; Nan Zhang; Lingfei Guo

doi:10.3389/fsurg.2022.935211

Case report of retroperitoneal ectopic pancreas with adrenal adenoma

Front Surg. 2022 Sep 7:9:935211. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2022.935211. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Zhaochen Sun¹, Tao Chen², Xuefeng Zhu³, Jie Geng⁴, Chaofan Sui⁵, Nan Zhang⁵, Lingfei Guo⁵

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China.
² Clinical Laboratory, Jinan Maternal and Child Care Hospital, Jinan, China.
³ Department of Radiology, Zouping People's Hospital of Shandong Province, Zouping, China.
⁴ Department of Director's Office, Jinan Municipal Health Commission, Jinan, China.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China.

Abstract

Background: Ectopic pancreas is a congenital anomaly in which pancreatic tissue is anatomically separated from the main gland and without vascular or ductal continuity. A case of retroperitoneal ectopic pancreas with adrenal adenoma has never yet been reported.

Case presentation: A 54-year-old man presented three masses in the left retroperitoneum, and two of them were resected. The pathologic findings were a retroperitoneal ectopic pancreas with adrenal adenoma.

Conclusion: We report an extremely rare case of a retroperitoneal ectopic pancreas and its characterization with dynamic gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Keywords: accessory spleen; adrenal adenoma; ectopic pancreas; imaging features; magnetic resonance imaging; retroperitoneum.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2020MH288), the Technology Development Plan of Jinan (201301049, 201602206, 201907052), Medical and Health Science and Technology Development Project of Shandong Province (2016 WS0529), and Funding for Study Abroad Program by Shandong Province (201803059).