Late Development of Pancreatitis Following Gunshot Trauma, A Case Report

BACKGROUND: Gunshot trauma to the pancreatic duct mainly have been published from wartime experiences, but bullet injury in these cases has lead to pancreatic duct disruption, not obstruction. We report a case of chronic pancreatitis which is presented 27 years following pancreatic duct obstruction...

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Autores principales: Nikeghbalian, S, Akrami, M, Fazelzadeh, A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23115722
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description BACKGROUND: Gunshot trauma to the pancreatic duct mainly have been published from wartime experiences, but bullet injury in these cases has lead to pancreatic duct disruption, not obstruction. We report a case of chronic pancreatitis which is presented 27 years following pancreatic duct obstruction due to bullet injury during wartime, which successfully treated. He was a 45-year-old man came with chronic epigastric abdominal pain. Physical examination was suggestive of pancreatitis and laboratory data confirmed the diagnosis. Imaging studies revealed a metallic object in main pancreatic duct. He carefully treated with pancreatic head resection and pancreaticojejunal anastomosis.
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spelling pubmed-34823322012-10-31 Late Development of Pancreatitis Following Gunshot Trauma, A Case Report Nikeghbalian, S Akrami, M Fazelzadeh, A Iran Red Crescent Med J Case Report BACKGROUND: Gunshot trauma to the pancreatic duct mainly have been published from wartime experiences, but bullet injury in these cases has lead to pancreatic duct disruption, not obstruction. We report a case of chronic pancreatitis which is presented 27 years following pancreatic duct obstruction due to bullet injury during wartime, which successfully treated. He was a 45-year-old man came with chronic epigastric abdominal pain. Physical examination was suggestive of pancreatitis and laboratory data confirmed the diagnosis. Imaging studies revealed a metallic object in main pancreatic duct. He carefully treated with pancreatic head resection and pancreaticojejunal anastomosis. Kowsar 2012-09-30 2012-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3482332/ /pubmed/23115722 Text en Copyright © 2012, Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ 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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