title: Painless acute pancreatitis mimicking pancreatic carcinoma.
abstract: Painful acute pancreatitis masking pancreatic carcinoma and painless acute pancreatitis with shock or coma as leading symptoms have been described before. We report a first case of almost-painless pancreatitis mimicking pancreatic carcinoma with spontaneous normalization of symptoms and biochemical as well as imaging procedure findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Municipal Hospital of Lüneburg, Germany.
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Lankisch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mahlke
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Graf
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Becher
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Riesner
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography