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Neurinomas of the vagus nerve are rare occurrences, and their localization to the abdominal portion of the nerve are even more exceptional events (two cases published). A case is reported where presenting symptoms were post-prandial abdominal pains of the pancreatic type. The lesion was of the necrotic hemorrhagic type.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors report the clinical record of an isolated neurinoma in the pancreas of a fifty year old African woman. Thanks to this observation and ten other cases previously described by literature, they remind of the rarity of this localization as of the polymorphous clinical aspects in this disease. They point out the difficulty of anerting the positive diagnostic as well as the importance of the histological investigation which alone can authenticate the lesion and precise its benign ou malignant nature.
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