Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocysts represent a rare complication of acute or chronic pancreatitis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old man with a history of chronic pancreatitis was admitted with intermittent dyspnea, dysphagia and weight loss. Chest X-ray, computed tomography and magneti...

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Autores principales: Drescher, Robert, Köster, Odo, Lukas, Carsten
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2415357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18505589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-180
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Köster, Odo
Lukas, Carsten
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Lukas, Carsten
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description INTRODUCTION: Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocysts represent a rare complication of acute or chronic pancreatitis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old man with a history of chronic pancreatitis was admitted with intermittent dyspnea, dysphagia and weight loss. Chest X-ray, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large paracardial pancreatic pseudocyst causing cardiac and esophageal compression. CONCLUSION: Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocysts are a rare complication of chronic pancreatitis. These pseudocysts may lead to isolated thoracic symptoms. For accurate diagnostic and therapy planning, a multimodal imaging approach is necessary.
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spelling pubmed-24153572008-06-07 Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report Drescher, Robert Köster, Odo Lukas, Carsten J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocysts represent a rare complication of acute or chronic pancreatitis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old man with a history of chronic pancreatitis was admitted with intermittent dyspnea, dysphagia and weight loss. Chest X-ray, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large paracardial pancreatic pseudocyst causing cardiac and esophageal compression. CONCLUSION: Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocysts are a rare complication of chronic pancreatitis. These pseudocysts may lead to isolated thoracic symptoms. For accurate diagnostic and therapy planning, a multimodal imaging approach is necessary. BioMed Central 2008-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2415357/ /pubmed/18505589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-180 Text en Copyright © 2008 Drescher et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Drescher, Robert
Köster, Odo
Lukas, Carsten
Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report
title Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report
title_full Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report
title_fullStr Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report
title_short Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report
title_sort mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst with isolated thoracic symptoms: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2415357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18505589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-180
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