Cavernous Pancreatic Ductal Ectasia with Smooth Muscle Proliferation Causing Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis.
Pancreatic cystic lesions have various etiologies,including pseudocyst (inflammatory cyst), retentioncyst, congenital cyst, and neoplastic cyst (1).Recently, we experienced a case with a uniquepancreatic cyst-like lesion causing recurrent acutepancreatitis. This patient had multiple cystic dilatations of branch pancreatic ducts surrounded by proliferationof smooth muscle tissue, with neither neoplastic nor inflammatory changes. To our knowledge, there are no previous reports of such a case.
Sugiyama
Masanori
M
The First Department of Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6-20-2 Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan.
Izumisato
Yumi
Y
Abe
Nobutsugu
N
Terado
Yuichi
Y
Fujioka
Yasunori
Y
Ogawa
Takeshi
T
Nakamura
Takashi
T
Atomi
Yutaka
Y