<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>A pancreatic sarcoma of nerve sheath origin is reported in a 28-year-old female patient, who presented
with melaena. Preoperative imaging showed an 8.5 cm diameter mass in the head of pancreas. There
was bleeding from the papilla of Vater at endoscopy and a highly vascular lesion on arteriography. The
patient was submitted to proximal pancreatoduodenectomy and remains symptom-free at 1 year follow-up.</p>
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