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Endoscopic image of the gastric antral submucosal lesion, which ultimately proved to be a gastric ectopic pancreas.
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Endoscopy showed erosive gastritis, a hiatal hernia, and a submucosal tumour located along the lesser curvature on the posterior wall of the antrum (Fig. 1).
Endoscopic ultrasonography image of the gastric antral submucosal lesion, which ultimately proved to be a gastric ectopic pancreas. The lesion was growing from the fourth, muscular, layer of the stomach, measured 22 x 13 mm and displayed heterogenous echogenicity.
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Endoscopic ultrasonography confirmed a 22 x 13 mm submucosal well-defined solid tumour arising from the fourth, muscular, layer of the stomach (Fig. 2).
Ectopic pancreatic lobuli occupying the submucosa and muscularis propria under intact normal gastric mucosa (haematoxylin & eosin).
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Histopathological analysis confirmed an ectopic pancreas, 15 mm in diameter (Fig. 3).