Incidental duodenal pancreatic heterotopia during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

a case report and literature review

1/1/20191 分钟阅读

Objective:

Congenital defects/diseases

Background:

Heterotopic pancreas is pancreatic tissue that presents outside the normal anatomical location. It is mostly discovered in the upper gastrointestinal tract (mostly the foregut). We report the first case report of incidentaloma of duodenal heterotopic pancreas in obese patients during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.