title: Successful endoscopic treatment of mediastinal pseudocysts.
abstract: Mediastinal pseudocysts can pose a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the clinician and surgeon. Recognizing their presence and instituting appropriate therapy can reduce morbidity and mortality. This report describes unusual clinical features in a patient presenting with multiple mediastinal pseudocysts due to pancreatic duct leak secondary to pancreatic duct stenosis and an entrapment of a pancreatic duct stone. Successful endoscopic therapy averted the need for surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin 54449, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Musana
authors.forename: Steven H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yale
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdulkarim
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Rall
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D006801:Humans; D020347:Lithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D010183:Pancreatic Ducts; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D015607:Stents