 |
|
Spontaneous Rupture of a Pancreatic Pseudocyst Into the Duodenum
Robert Littmann, MD;
Rubem Pochaczevsky, MD;
Robert M. Richter, MD
AMA Arch Surg. 1970;100(1):76-78.
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings. |
|
|
|
The natural history of pancreatic pseudocyst occasionally terminates with rupture into either the peritoneal cavity or a hollow viscus. Rupture into the duodenum, however, is extremely rare; the world literature contains but two documented reports of this complication.1 This report details the third such case, reviews the pertinent literature, and discusses the radiologic diagnosis.
Report of a Case
A 46-year-old Negro man was admitted to the Greenpoint Hospital on Dec 29, 1968, with the complaint of epigastric pain and vomiting of two days' duration. He admitted to the daily consumption of large quantities of alcohol and had been hospitalized twice during the preceding year for treatment of acute pancreatitis.
Upper-gastrointestinal tract x-ray films were normal during the first admission (Fig 1). At the second admission, nine months before the current hospitalization, repeat examination showed the stomach and duodenal bulb to be intrinsically normal. The entire descending portion of the
. . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]
Author Affiliations
Brooklyn, NY
From the departments of surgery and radiology Greenpoint Hospital Affiliation of the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Littmann is now at New York University Medical Center, New York.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 27, 1969.
Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, 555 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238 (Dr. Richter).
 CiteULike  Connotea  Del.icio.us  Digg  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter
What's this?
|
