title: [One case of pancreatic mucinous carcinoma discovered due to acute pancreatitis].
abstract: The patient was a woman, aged 69, diagnosed with acute pancreatitis by a local physician; simultaneously, with US, a low-echo tumor was indicated in the pancreas' uncinate process. Diagnosis was made of acute pancreatitis resulting from a pancreatic IPMN, and the patient was referred. Ultrasound showed hypoechoic tumor images accompanied by posterior echo enhancement. With radiography-CT, from the pancreas parenchymal phase, the peripheral portion was densely stained, while internally, images showed densely stained dendriforms towards the equilibrium phase. With MRI T1-weighted images, there was appearance at low intensity, and with T2-weighted images, there was appearance at high intensity; with MRCP, there was depiction at relatively high intensity. In the final pathological diagnosis, there was prominent formation of mucinous nodules, and mucinous carcinoma including large quantity of mucous.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Kumamoto Red-cross Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Urata
authors.forename: Michio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hifumi
authors.forename: Yoshi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takekuma
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hijioka
authors.forename: Ryosuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gushima
authors.forename: Syunpei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hashigo
authors.forename: Katsuya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagaoka
authors.forename: Syuya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshinaga
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kitada
authors.forename: Tetsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
authors.forename: Shigeyoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamanaga
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yokomizo
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology*