A Case of Heterotopic Pancreatic Tissue in the Gallbladder with Early Gastric Cancer

Abstract

A 68-year-old woman was found to have an abnormal shadow of the stomach by upper gastrointestinal series at an annual physical examination. She was diagnosed as having gastric cancer by upper endoscopy. Abdominal ultrasonograply and a CT scan also revealed a polyp in theneck of the gallbladder. She underwent gastrectomy and cholecystectomy. A lesion in the gallbladder, 5×5mm in diameter, was a subserous tumor. Pathohistological examination of the excised specimen revealed heterotopic pancreatic tissue of the Heinrich I type.