[Pancreatitis of hydatid origin].
BACKGROUND
Hydatic cysts of the liver are known to rupture into the biliary tree, but acute pancreatitis is an uncommon consequence.


METHODS
A 30-year-old woman who had undergone cholecystectomy 8 years earlier for gall bladder stones was hospitalized because of acute abdominal pain. Acute pancreatitis was diagnosed. Abdominal sonography showed a hydatic cyst. Fifteen days after admission after normalization of the amylasemia, surgical cure was successful.


CONCLUSIONS
This case demonstrates that hepatic material can migrate via the main bile duct and provoke acute pancreatitis. Fistula drainage via the Oddi sphincter can be successful.
el Idrissi
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Service des Urgences chirurgicales viscérales, CHU Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Maroc.
Ridai
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Zerouali
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography
Pancréatite d'origine hydatique.