title: Disappearance of a large mediastinal pseudocyst in a patient with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis after total parenteral nutrition.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the unusual case of a mediastinal pseudocyst in a patient with chronic pancreatitis, which resolved after conservative treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 59-year-old patient with alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis and a large mediastinal pseudocyst.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bowel rest and total parenteral nutrition for 4 weeks.
  
  
  METHODS
  The pseudocyst resolved completely.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Conservative treatment is a valuable option in patients with chronic pancreatitis presenting with a mediastinal pseudocyst, but close supervision is mandatory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frenzer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schubarth
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soucek
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Krähenbühl
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications*; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total