Acute biliary pancreatitis in a 9-year-old child treated with endoscopic sphincterotomy.
Acute biliary pancreatitis is a well recognized complication of gallstone disease in adults. Acute pancreatitis in childhood is usually caused by congenital anomalies of the pancreatico-biliary ducts, viral infections, drug toxicity or abdominal trauma. We report the case of a 9-year-old girl with acute biliary pancreatitis and cholangitis. On urgent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography a bulging papilla with impacted stone was seen. She was treated with endoscopic sphincterotomy without complications. The disease resolved rapidly and uneventfully after the endoscopic treatment.
Nowak
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Department of Gastroenterology, Silesian Academy of Medicine, Medyków 14, 40-752 Katowice, Poland.
Kohut
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Nowakowska-Duława
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Romańczyk
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Graniewski
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J
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D041761:Cholecystolithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D042883:Choledocholithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016717:Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic