Chronic pancreatitis and pancreas divisum in an infant: diagnosed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and treated with somatostatin analog.
We describe an infant with pancreas divisum diagnosed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. This infant had chronic and unremitting pancreatitis that only became amenable to surgery following the use of somatostatin analog after the usual and customary treatment for pancreatitis was ineffective.
Yaffe
M R
MR
Dean Medical Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53715.
Gutenberger
J E
JE
D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000002:abnormalities*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D013004:Somatostatin