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A REPORT OF TWENTY-FOUR CASES

CHARLES D. BRANCH, M.D.; ROBERT E. GROSS, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1935;31(2):200-224.

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The occurrence of aberrant pancreatic tissue, discovered either at operation or at autopsy, has been reported from time to time since the first case was described by Klob¹ in 1859. From that date until 1904, when Warthin² made the first comprehensive study of the literature, reports of isolated cases were published. Warthin collected forty-seven cases, to which he added two. Since then surveys of the literature have been made by Horgan³ in 1921, by Simpson⁴ in 1927 and by Hunt and Bonesteel⁵ in 1934. The last review brought the total number of cases to one hundred and eighty-six. Since the completion of Hunt and Bonesteel's paper at least ten additional examples⁶ have been reported, to which we are adding reports of twenty-four cases in which aberrant pancreatic tissue was found at various locations in the gastro-intestinal tract.

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Author Affiliations
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From the Departments of Surgery and Pathology of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Children's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School.

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