An Incidental Finding, Life-Saving Care: Surgery to Remove Lindsey’s Pancreatic Tumor

Lindsey Scheyer was rushed to the Newton Wellesley Hospital emergency room after returning home from summer camp one day feeling nauseous and bothered by a jabbing pain in her abdomen. It was there that she was evaluated by Peter Masiakos, MD, a pediatric provider at Newton-Wellesley and Mass General for Children (both part of the Mass General Brigham health system) and diagnosed with appendicitis. After a routine appendectomy failed to alleviate her symptoms, she underwent additional testing, which revealed something much more alarming and unexpected: a two-inch-long benign tumor on her pancreas. Lindsey was transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital for spleen-sparing pancreas surgery with Dr. Masiakos and Motaz Qadan, MD, PhD, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgical oncologist.

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