Disappearance of a large mediastinal pseudocyst in a patient with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis after total parenteral nutrition.
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.
Frenzer
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Department of Medicine, Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland.
Schubarth
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P
Soucek
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M
Krähenbühl
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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