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This case describes a 40-year-old man with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, who was found to have a cystic lesion in the tail of the pancreas. Distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy revealed a primary epidermoid cyst of the spleen lying in the substance of the tail of the pancreas. This represents the only report of a splenic cyst in an ectopic spleen that could be found in a search of the world literature.
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Davidson, E.D., Campbell, W.G. & Hersh, T. Epidermoid splenic cyst occurring in an intrapancreatic accessory spleen. Digest Dis Sci 25, 964–967 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01308048
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