title: Massive bleeding into the upper gastro-intestinal tract in hereditary chronic calcifying pancreatitis in the child.
abstract: This report deals with a young girl affected with chronic hereditary calcifying pancreatitis, which gave rise to acute life-threatening arterial bleeding into the upper gastro-intestinal tract. A pancreatic pseudocyst forming in the chronically affected pancreas spontaneously perforated into the stomach, thereby eroding a gastric wall artery. We think it is conceivable that in the future this type of complication in children with pancreatitis and pseudocyst formation might occur more frequently.
authors.affiliation: Kinderchirurgische Abteilung, Kinderspital Wildermeth, Biel, Schweiz.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ehrensperger
mesh_terms: D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000601:surgery; D005799:Genes, Dominant / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000601:surgery; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014463:Ultrasonography