Pancreatitis of the gastroduodenal groove: a case report.
Groove pancreatitis, a form of chronic pancreatitis affecting the head of the pancreas, is localized within the groove between the pancreas head, duodenum, and common bile duct. We report a case of a male patient with groove pancreatitis who initially underwent a duodenal preserving gastrenteranastomosis. Unfortunately, the patient's symptoms were only partially controlled, necessitating a pancreaticoduodenectomy in due course as the definite surgical restoration procedure. The surgical approach selected proved inadequate since the patient's symptoms did not resolve over time. This reflects that by-pass operations like these are not indicated for the management of patients with groove pancreatitis.
2nd Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, 11525 Athens, Greece.
Vasileios
V
German
Konstantinos A
KA
Ekmektzoglou
Nicolaos
N
Kyriakos
Paraskevas
P
Patouras
Athanasios
A
Kikilas