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- Title
A CLOSE ENCOUNTER -- LEFT PNEUMONIA AND PANCREATIC TAIL FISTULA AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC LEFT ADRENALECTOMY.
- Authors
Enciu, O.; Toma, E. A.; Badiu, C.; Miron, A.
- Abstract
Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is currently considered the gold standard for adrenal tumors up to 6 cm, and although with far less morbidity than the open alternative, when it comes to its complications we should not look away. The case concerns a 51-year old obese male that underwent left laparoscopic adrenalectomy for incidentaloma and developed pancreatic tail fistula. Without an evident pancreatic lesion during surgery and an uneventful early postoperative course the patient was discharged only to return 4 days later with respiratory symptoms and mild abdominal discomfort in the left upper quadrant. The CT scan diagnosed a left subphrenic fluid collection and left basal pneumonia, thus the patient underwent laparoscopic reintervention for drainage of the pancreatic fluid collection and received conventional antibiotherapy for pneumonia. The patient was discharged in good condition with the drainage tube in situ. The drainage tube was extracted 14 days later.
- Subjects
PANCREATIC fistula; COMPUTED tomography; ADRENALECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC surgery; PANCREATIC surgery; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Acta Endocrinologica (1841-0987), 2020, Vol 16, Issue 4, p526
- ISSN
1841-0987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4183/aeb.2020.526