Pancreatic schwannoma: An uncommon but important entity

The literature contains five single case reports of pancreatic schwannoma-t wo of the five occurred in patients,vith von Recklinghausen's disease, and three of the five proved malignant. Within a 3-month period, we resected be nign pancreatic schwannomas in two patients without von Recklinghausen's di sease. Both patients presented with pain that led to the discovery of a com plex pancreatic mass on abdominal CT scan. Pancreatic schwannoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of cystic or solid pancreatic abnorm alities on imaging studies.