Prenatal detection of a congenital pancreatic cyst by ultrasound.
We present a case of a fetal pancreatic cyst, a rare disease in fetal life, detected prenatally at 30 weeks' gestation by ultrasound. Routine ultrasound examination at 30 weeks' gestation by primary obstetrician showed a cyst on the fetal abdomen. Initially, the suspected diagnosis was a mesenteric cyst. Subsequent ultrasound examination at weeks 32, 36 showed a fetal retroperitoneal cyst. A 3.6 kg female neonate was born to 23 yr old woman by spontaneous vaginal delivery at 38 weeks' gestation. The fetus underwent exploratory laparotomy. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical diagnosis revealed the cyst to be a pancreatic cyst. Surgical outcome was excellent. Thus, we report this case of a pancreatic cyst detected via prenatal ultrasonography.
Choi
Sang-Joon
SJ
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea. sjchoi@chosun.ac.kr
Kang
Min-Chang
MC
Kim
Young-Hye
YH
Lim
Ju-Sung
JS
Lim
Sung-Chul
SC
Chang
Jung-Hwan
JH
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010181:Pancreatic Cyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal