title: [Acute pancreatitis due to a metallic foreign body].
abstract: We report a case of acute pancreatitis caused by a metallic foreign body located in the pancreatic head in a 38-Year-old woman. Only 15 cases of acute pancreatitis due to foreign bodies, metallic in five cases, have been published to date. In our case, diagnosis was established by the computed tomography scan. The patient declined surgery.
authors.affiliation: Service d'imagerie médicale, CHU Mongi Slim, La Marsa, Tunisie. lamia_rezgui@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Lamia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rezgui-Marhoul
authors.forename: Wassim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Saïd
authors.forename: Anis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Askri
authors.forename: Wiem
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Douira
authors.forename: Nadida
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dali
authors.forename: Lassaad
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dridi
authors.forename: Lotfi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hendaoui
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008670:Metals; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D008670:Metals