Adenocarcinoma with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm arising in jejunal heterotopic pancreas

Korean J Pathol. 2012 Feb;46(1):96-100. doi: 10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2012.46.1.96. Epub 2012 Feb 23.

Abstract

A 74-year-old man suffered from jejunal perforation and adhesion to sigmoid colon due to adenocarcinoma associated with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) arising in a jejunal heterotopic pancreas. The jejunal lesion showed direct extension to the sigmoid colon, which was mistaken as sigmoid colon cancer by surgeons. Malignant transformation is a rare complication of a heterotopic pancreas. About half of malignancies in reported cases were ductal adenocarcinoma arising in the stomach, and the jejunal location is extremely rare. Furthermore, IPMN is also uncommon finding in a heterotopic pancreas.

Keywords: Adenocarcinoma; Heterotopia; Jejunum; Pancreas.