MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS

The case of a 35-year old man who presented with massive left sided haemothorax as a complication of an asymtomatic pancreatic pseudocyst is descibed. The diagnosis was confirmed by very high amylase content of the pleural fluid. The complications of pancreatitis and pancreatic pseudocyst are also b...

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Autores principales: Dixit, Ramakant, Sharma, Sidharth, Dave, Lokendra
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165665
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59594
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description The case of a 35-year old man who presented with massive left sided haemothorax as a complication of an asymtomatic pancreatic pseudocyst is descibed. The diagnosis was confirmed by very high amylase content of the pleural fluid. The complications of pancreatitis and pancreatic pseudocyst are also briefly discussed. Haemothorax represents an unusual pulmonary complication of pseudocyst pancreas and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pleural fluid collection in pancreatitis.
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spelling pubmed-28223362010-02-17 MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS Dixit, Ramakant Sharma, Sidharth Dave, Lokendra Lung India Case Report The case of a 35-year old man who presented with massive left sided haemothorax as a complication of an asymtomatic pancreatic pseudocyst is descibed. The diagnosis was confirmed by very high amylase content of the pleural fluid. The complications of pancreatitis and pancreatic pseudocyst are also briefly discussed. Haemothorax represents an unusual pulmonary complication of pseudocyst pancreas and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pleural fluid collection in pancreatitis. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2822336/ /pubmed/20165665 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59594 Text en © Lung India 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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Dixit, Ramakant
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MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS
title MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS
title_full MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS
title_fullStr MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS
title_full_unstemmed MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS
title_short MASSIVE HAEMOTHORAX IN ASYMPTOMATIC PSEUDOCYST PANCREAS
title_sort massive haemothorax in asymptomatic pseudocyst pancreas
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165665
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59594
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