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50-year-old man with intrapancreatic accessory spleen. Axial CT scan of the abdomen in the arterial phase shows a hypervascular mass (arrow) in the pancreatic tail with similar attenuation values as the spleen.
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In retrospect, the lesion had similar attenuation values as the spleen on the arterial and portal venous phases (Figure 1A, Figure 1B, Figure 1C, Figure 1D).
50-year-old man with intrapancreatic accessory spleen. Axial CT scan of the abdomen in the portal venous phase shows the same mass (arrow) in the pancreatic tail with similar attenuation values as the spleen.
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The diagnosis of an IPAS was made on histopathological examination of the surgical specimen (Fig. 2).