Pancreatic Fungal Ball Presenting as Pseudomass

Fungal infections of the pancreas have been shown to occur most commonly in the setting of necrotizing pancreatitis, pancreatic cysts, or pancreatic abscesses. Pancreatic fungal infections are rare without these predisposing factors, and may present similarly to pancreatic neoplasm. We report the ca...

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Autores principales: Chou, Naomi, Burbridge, Rebecca, Karram, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28459079
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2017.55
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description Fungal infections of the pancreas have been shown to occur most commonly in the setting of necrotizing pancreatitis, pancreatic cysts, or pancreatic abscesses. Pancreatic fungal infections are rare without these predisposing factors, and may present similarly to pancreatic neoplasm. We report the case of a 48-year-old man who presented with epigastric abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss, with a potential mass in the head of the pancreas. The mass was resected via the Whipple procedure and was found to be a fungal collection with inflammatory cells and no malignancy. The patient’s clinical course improved after the resection.
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spelling pubmed-54046172017-04-28 Pancreatic Fungal Ball Presenting as Pseudomass Chou, Naomi Burbridge, Rebecca Karram, Sarah ACG Case Rep J Case Report Fungal infections of the pancreas have been shown to occur most commonly in the setting of necrotizing pancreatitis, pancreatic cysts, or pancreatic abscesses. Pancreatic fungal infections are rare without these predisposing factors, and may present similarly to pancreatic neoplasm. We report the case of a 48-year-old man who presented with epigastric abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss, with a potential mass in the head of the pancreas. The mass was resected via the Whipple procedure and was found to be a fungal collection with inflammatory cells and no malignancy. The patient’s clinical course improved after the resection. American College of Gastroenterology 2017-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5404617/ /pubmed/28459079 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2017.55 Text en Copyright © Chou et al. This is an open-access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404617/
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