A case of pancreatitis associated with gastrinoma.
A case is presented of a 56 year old man with a history of idiopathic pancreatitis and multiple admissions for Klebsiella sepsis from an intra-abdominal focus, who in February 1980, developed spontaneous jejunal perforations on two occasions due to multiple ulcers in the small intestine associated with multiple hepatic metastases from a gastrin-secreting islet-cell tumor (gastrinoma) of the pancreas. On searching the literature, no other record could be found of an association between pancreatitis and a gastrinoma, although in this patient the two disease processes appear to be inextricably related.
D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications*; D015043:Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis