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- Title
Hemorrhage into pancreatic pseudocyst.
- Authors
Ikeda, Osamu; Kume, Shuichi; Torigoe, Yoshitsugu; Iryou, Yasuhiko; Tamura, Yoshitaka; Kawanaka, Kouichi; Yamashita, Yasuyuki
- Abstract
We report a patient whose upper abdominal pain was due to an alcoholic pancreatic pseudocyst with hemorrhage. CT showed a gradually enhancing pancreatic pseudocyst about 6 cm in diameter. It exhibited hyposignal intensity on T2-weighted images and hypersignal intensity on T1-weighted images. Enlargement of the pancreatic pseudocyst was thought to be attributable to hemorrhage into the pancreatic pseudocyst. Angiography revealed a pseudoaneurysm in the anterior superior pancreaticoduodenal (ASPD) artery. Selective transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) of the ASPD artery stopped the bleeding and his abdominal pain lessened. After 1 month, the diameter of the pseudocyst was reduced to about 3 cm and it showed hypersignal intensity on T2-weighted images and hyposignal intensity on T1-weighted images. TAE was considered to be a minimally invasive, highly effective treatment in this patient with hemorrhage into a pancreatic pseudocyst.
- Subjects
PANCREATIC diseases; HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; THERAPEUTIC embolization
- Publication
Abdominal Imaging, 2007, Vol 32, Issue 3, p370
- ISSN
0942-8925
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00261-006-9075-2