Abstract

CASTELLANOS CARMENATE, Teresa. Atypical or heterotopic pancreas. MEDISAN [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.5, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1029-3019.

The clinical case of a 30 year-old patient is reported, who was attended in the Gastroenterology Department due to dyspeptic symptoms with a course of 6 months and was evaluated initially in her doctor's office, where a treatment with antacid and procinetics was indicated. The results of additional tests, including biopsy, consisted with the characteristic alterations of an hamartomatous polyp with heterotopic pancreatic tissue. Six months after polypectomy she was asymptomatic.

Keywords : PÁNCREAS; CHORISTOMA; CHORISTOMA [diagnosis]; CHORISTOMA [therapy]; DYSPEPSIA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; POLYPS [surgery].

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