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Diagnostic Dilemma in Groove Pancreatitis: A Case Report

Groove pancreatitis is an uncommon form of chronic pancreatitis common in patients with a history of smoking and alcohol abuse. A high index of suspicion is required as it may masquerade pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and both of these conditions are difficult to differentiate preoperatively. Panc...

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Autores principales: Laudari, Uttam, Ghimire, Roshan, Pradhan, Rosi, Maharjan, Dhiresh Kumar, Thapa, Prabin Bikram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7775025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506416
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5301
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author Laudari, Uttam
Ghimire, Roshan
Pradhan, Rosi
Maharjan, Dhiresh Kumar
Thapa, Prabin Bikram
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description Groove pancreatitis is an uncommon form of chronic pancreatitis common in patients with a history of smoking and alcohol abuse. A high index of suspicion is required as it may masquerade pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and both of these conditions are difficult to differentiate preoperatively. Pancreaticoduodenectomy has a good outcome in a patient with Groove pancreatitis. Hence, we are reporting a case report of Groove pancreatitis in 40 years gentleman, who was being managed by multiple endoscopic dilatations, later underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy for persistent symptoms. He had no perioperative morbidity and doing well in 24 months follow up.
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spelling pubmed-77750252021-01-05 Diagnostic Dilemma in Groove Pancreatitis: A Case Report Laudari, Uttam Ghimire, Roshan Pradhan, Rosi Maharjan, Dhiresh Kumar Thapa, Prabin Bikram JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Case Report Groove pancreatitis is an uncommon form of chronic pancreatitis common in patients with a history of smoking and alcohol abuse. A high index of suspicion is required as it may masquerade pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and both of these conditions are difficult to differentiate preoperatively. Pancreaticoduodenectomy has a good outcome in a patient with Groove pancreatitis. Hence, we are reporting a case report of Groove pancreatitis in 40 years gentleman, who was being managed by multiple endoscopic dilatations, later underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy for persistent symptoms. He had no perioperative morbidity and doing well in 24 months follow up. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020-11 2020-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7775025/ /pubmed/34506416 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5301 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Diagnostic Dilemma in Groove Pancreatitis: A Case Report
title_sort diagnostic dilemma in groove pancreatitis: a case report
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