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We report the case of a 58-year-old female patient whose initial presentation was characterized by paroxysmal behavioral abnormalities during nocturnal sleep, manifesting as sudden agitation, arm-flinging, and purposeless stereotyped movements after sleep onset. During these episodes, the patient exhibited a confusional state with subsequent complete amnesia for the events, a clinical phenotype highly suggestive of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) or frontal lobe epilepsy. In-hospital monitoring revealed refractory nocturnal hypoglycemia. Imaging studies identified a mass in the pancreatic tail, and the patient underwent laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy. Postoperative histopathological and immunohistochemical examination confirmed the diagnosis of pancreatic hamartoma, composed predominantly of islet cells (approximately 90%) with associated islet cell tumor-like hyperplasia. 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