Lymphocele mimicking a pancreatic pseudocyst: imaging characteristics and percutaneous management.
Lymphocele can be a difficult diagnosis to establish and may be confused for other abdominal fluid collections. Conversely, pancreatic pseudocysts may occur inadvertently from upper abdominal surgery and must be included in the differential diagnosis of virtually all peripancreatic fluid collections. We report the unusual occurrence of an unsuspected postoperative peripancreatic lymphocele that was thought to be a pancreatic pseudocyst. In retrospect, CT findings were evident and diagnostic. The lymphocele responded well to percutaneous drainage.
Chen
Yung-Hsin
YH
Department of Radiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
vanSonnenberg
Eric
E
Urman
Richard
R
Silverman
Stuart G
SG
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008210:Lymphocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000175:diagnosis; D011859:Radiography