Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis

We report a case of an adult male who presented with recurrent massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion with a mediastinal cyst due to an unusual complication of pancreatic pseudocyst-like pancreaticopleural fistula and a mediastinal pseudocyst. The clinical presentation was misleading since the patient...

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Autores principales: Moorthy, Nagaraja, Raveesha, A., Prabhakar, K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19727359
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.33701
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author Moorthy, Nagaraja
Raveesha, A.
Prabhakar, K.
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description We report a case of an adult male who presented with recurrent massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion with a mediastinal cyst due to an unusual complication of pancreatic pseudocyst-like pancreaticopleural fistula and a mediastinal pseudocyst. The clinical presentation was misleading since the patient presented with predominantly respiratory complaints. High index of suspicion of pancreatic etiology in recurrent massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion may lead to the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-27320882009-09-02 Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis Moorthy, Nagaraja Raveesha, A. Prabhakar, K. Ann Thorac Med Case Report We report a case of an adult male who presented with recurrent massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion with a mediastinal cyst due to an unusual complication of pancreatic pseudocyst-like pancreaticopleural fistula and a mediastinal pseudocyst. The clinical presentation was misleading since the patient presented with predominantly respiratory complaints. High index of suspicion of pancreatic etiology in recurrent massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion may lead to the diagnosis. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2732088/ /pubmed/19727359 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.33701 Text en © Annals of Thoracic Medicine 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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Moorthy, Nagaraja
Raveesha, A.
Prabhakar, K.
Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis
title Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis
title_full Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis
title_fullStr Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis
title_full_unstemmed Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis
title_short Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis
title_sort pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: an unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19727359
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.33701
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