Ectopic Tissue

Ingenhoff, Luisa

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_5502-1

Luisa Ingenhoff³

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Intrapancreatic accessory spleen

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Ectopic tissue is an abnormally located tissue. In the pancreas, the most common ectopic tissue is spleen tissue (Fig. 1).

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Institute of Pathology, Heinrich Heine University & University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Ingenhoff, L. (2021). Ectopic Tissue. In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_5502-1

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_5502-1
Received: 19 July 2020
Accepted: 04 October 2020
Published: 04 March 2021
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-28845-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-28845-1
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