[Three children with pancreatic (pseudo)cysts as the cause of undefined abdominal pain].
Three children, two boys aged 5 years and one 2-year-old girl, who were referred because of abdominal pain of variable duration, were found to have cystic malformations that arose from the pancreas. In the first boy, a traumatic pseudocyst was found that eventually turned out to have been caused by child abuse. The second boy had pseudocysts complicating chronic pancreatitis of presumably hereditary origin. In the girl, a congenital pancreatic cyst was found. Pancreatic disease, although rare, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in children.
van Leeuwaarde
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Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Geneeskunde, Amsterdam.
Kneepkens
C M F
CM
Ekkelkamp
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Wijnaendts
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LC
D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D002649:Child Abuse; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics