A 28-year-old woman is brought to the trauma center following a high-speed motor vehicle crash. Contrast-enhanced CT abdomen shows a Grade III pancreatic injury with transection of the pancreatic body and a Grade II renal injury with a cortical laceration. Which finding best distinguishes a pancreatic injury from a renal injury in blunt abdominal trauma?

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