title: [Pancreatic pseudocyst. A review of 10 years].
abstract: In the hope of finding those patients whose pancreas pseudocyst resolution were spontaneous, we undertook a retrospective review of such cases admitted at the Hospital Central de San Cristobal y Hospital Patrocinio Peñuela Ruiz (from IVSS), with the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. From 619 patients with pancreatitis, 40 developed a pseudocyst (5.78%). The most frequent ethiology was biliary disease (47.5%) and abdominal pain in 87.5%, the most common symptom. Abdominal ultrasonography was the best diagnostic aid. Spontaneous resolution occur in 24 cases (60%) in juntion with the normalization of seric and urinary amylases values, the size of the cyst in these patients was less than 5 cms. Sixteen patients needed surgery, in 8 of them the seric amylase value remained high and in 3 cases this value was normal but with a cyst size more than five cms. Internal drainage in 11, external in 4 and surgical resection in one. There was no deaths in this review.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital Central de San Cristóbal.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Valera
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Navas
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mora
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000201:enzymology / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications; D012737:Sex Factors; D014687:Venezuela / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Pseudoquiste pancreático. 10 años de revisión.