Intrapancreatic hypervascular lesions may represent metastases, neuroendocrine tumors, or intrapancreatic accessory spleens. The benign intrapancreatic accessory spleen can be difficult to separate from a malignant neuroendocrine tumor or metastasis. We report three cases of pancreatic lesions that underwent pancreatic surgery due to suspicion of malignancy on imaging; all cases were histologically intrapancreatic accessory spleens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a 56-year-old woman who received chemotherapy for relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and developed posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) with generalized seizures 27 days after treatment with rituximab, ifosfamide, carboplatin and etoposide (R-ICE). The patient had moderate renal impairment (eGFR > 30 ml/min.) and a normal blood pressure.
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