title: Pseudotumor of the pancreas.
abstract: A 29-year-old black woman had a peculiar variety of chronic pancreatitis that initially presented as a solid, discrete mass in the head of the pancreas. It mimicked carcinoma and exemplifies the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma produced by such "pseudotumors" of the pancreas.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery