Ileal aberrant pancreas induces intussusception and gastrointestinal bleeding in an adult woman - case report

Aberrant pancreas is a congenital anomaly. In surgical series, its incidenc e varied from 0.2 to 0.8%. About 70% of aberrant pancreas occur in the gast rointestinal tract, Eighty percent of them locate in the stomach and duoden um, and only 0.2% in the ileum, We report on a 25-year-old woman with ileal aberrant pancreas who suffered from ileal intussusception and recurrent ga strointestinal bleeding, The diagnosis was confirmed by surgery and histolo gy, She is symptom-free after surgery. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 11:1175- 1177 (C) 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.