title: Recurrent acute pancreatitis caused by a gastric duplication cyst communicating with an aberrant pancreatic duct.
abstract: A 38-year-old woman was hospitalized in August 2007. This visit was her fifth episode of acute pancreatitis. Computed tomography revealed a cystic structure located near the antrum. Communication between this structure and the pancreatic duct was revealed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Ultrasonography revealed that the cyst wall had a layered structure. Thus, we regarded it as a gastric duplication cyst. We thought that the gastric duplication cyst communicating with an aberrant pancreatic duct was responsible for the recurrent acute pancreatitis. In August 2008, a cyst gastrostomy was performed between the gastric duplication cyst and the stomach. No recurrence of acute pancreatitis has since occurred.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Prefectural Hospital, Saga, Japan. ooedasa@cc.saga-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oeda
authors.forename: Taiga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Otsuka
authors.forename: Takumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akiyama
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ario
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: Shohei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shono
authors.forename: Seiji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawazoe
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010183:Pancreatic Ducts / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000601:surgery; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D014463:Ultrasonography