AUTHOR=Sun Zhaochen , Chen Tao , Zhu Xuefeng , Geng Jie , Sui Chaofan , Zhang Nan , Guo Lingfei 

TITLE=Case report of retroperitoneal ectopic pancreas with adrenal adenoma

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Surgery

VOLUME=9

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/surgery/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2022.935211

DOI=10.3389/fsurg.2022.935211

ISSN=2296-875X

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Background</title><p>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.</p></sec><sec><title>Case Presentation</title><p>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.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>We report an extremely rare case of a retroperitoneal ectopic pancreas and its characterization with dynamic gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).</p></sec>