Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report

Pancreatic pseudocysts are relatively common complications of acute pancreatitis. However, extension of pseudocysts into the mediastinum rarely occurs. In such situations they commonly present with chest pain or shortness of breath. We herein report the case of a patient with a pseudocyst presenting...

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Autores principales: Panackel, Charles, Korah, Arun T., Krishnadas, Devadas, Vinayakumar, Kattoor R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19568491
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.37801
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author Panackel, Charles
Korah, Arun T.
Krishnadas, Devadas
Vinayakumar, Kattoor R.
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description Pancreatic pseudocysts are relatively common complications of acute pancreatitis. However, extension of pseudocysts into the mediastinum rarely occurs. In such situations they commonly present with chest pain or shortness of breath. We herein report the case of a patient with a pseudocyst presenting with dysphagia. The clinical presentation, current modalities of diagnosis and management of mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst is reviewed in this article.
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spelling pubmed-27028802009-06-30 Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report Panackel, Charles Korah, Arun T. Krishnadas, Devadas Vinayakumar, Kattoor R. Saudi J Gastroenterol Case Report Pancreatic pseudocysts are relatively common complications of acute pancreatitis. However, extension of pseudocysts into the mediastinum rarely occurs. In such situations they commonly present with chest pain or shortness of breath. We herein report the case of a patient with a pseudocyst presenting with dysphagia. The clinical presentation, current modalities of diagnosis and management of mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst is reviewed in this article. Medknow Publications 2008-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2702880/ /pubmed/19568491 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.37801 Text en © Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Panackel, Charles
Korah, Arun T.
Krishnadas, Devadas
Vinayakumar, Kattoor R.
Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report
title Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report
title_full Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report
title_fullStr Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report
title_short Pancreatic Pseudocyst Presenting as Dysphagia: A Case Report
title_sort pancreatic pseudocyst presenting as dysphagia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19568491
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.37801
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