pancreatic pseudocyst/asthenia

BACKGROUND Pancreatic pseudocysts are the most common complication of acute and chronic pancreatitis. They account for 75% of the cystic lesions of the pancreas. METHODS A 37 year-old woman was admitted three months after an episode of severe acute pancreatitis with a large tumor mass located in her

BACKGROUND Ischemic pancreatitis is a rare medical entity. The pancreatic tissue is susceptible to ischemia with the possibility of developing acute pancreatitis. The abdominal aortic aneurysm can be one possible cause of pancreatic hypoperfusion. METHODS We report the case of a 68-year-old man,

Cystic neoplasms of the pancreas are rare but in the last years more frequently detected. Within a 10-year-period we treated 30 patients, including 8 serous cystadenomas, 6 mucinous cystadenomas, 12 mucinous cystadenocarcinomas, 2 cystic neuro-endocrine tumors and 1 papillary cystic tumor

A 57-year old gentleman had presented a year back with inflammatory oligoarthritis and vasculitic neuropathy, diagnosed as unclassifiable vasculitis, initiated on oral corticosteroids and intravenous cyclophosphamide (monthly X 6). His disease stabilized and he had been maintained on azathioprine,

We report tamoxifen-induced hypertriglyceridemia and asymptomatic acute pancreatitis in a 51 year-old women with type 2 diabetes mellitus and stage III-b infiltrative ductal carcinoma, admitted to the hospital with weakness, oliguria and glucose dysregulation. On admission, there was no fever,