title: Prepancreatic portal vein in a patient with intestinal nonrotation: report of a case.
abstract: Prepancreatic portal vein is an extremely rare congenital anomaly. It is even rarer in the setting of intestinal nonrotation. We report a case of prepancreatic portal vein in a 71-year-old female with nonrotation who presented with a pancreatic adenocarcinoma in the tail of the pancreas who underwent a distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy. This anomaly was identified prior to surgery on CT scan of the abdomen.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Indiana University, 545 Barnhill Drive EH 202, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. maziegle@iupui.ed
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ziegler
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al-Haddad
authors.forename: C Max
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D019160:Endosonography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013156:Splenectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed