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Intrapulmonary Heterotopic Pancreas Presenting As Lung Abscess

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 1 Department of Pathology Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Kashmir, India
For reprint information contact: Ghulam Nabi Lone, MCh Tel: 91 194 42 2592 Fax: 91 194 42 3470 email: root{at}skims.ren.nic.in Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 1222, GPO Srinagar, Kashmir 190001, India.

Ectopic pancreas in the lung is an extremely rare entity. A 17-year-old girl presented with a cystic lesion in the lower lobe of the right lung with features of sepsis. Exploration revealed a huge infected cyst bearing a nodule on its wall, in the right lower lobe, extending to the middle lobe, which proved to be pancreatic in origin (exocrine tissue only) on histopathology.