title: Large mucinous adenoma of pancreas presenting with recurrent pancreatitis.
abstract: Cystic pancreatic tumors are an unfamiliar and rare entity even after the advent of modern abdominal imaging. Mucinous pancreatic tumors presenting with features of pancreatitis is a rare phenomenon moreover it creates a diagnostic dilemma and can lead to mismanagement. We report here such a case of mucinous cyst adenoma presented as recurrent pancreatitis and mimicking as a pancreatic pseudocyst. The correct diagnosis was made only on CT scan and was successfully treated by surgical excision in the form of distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, M.G.M. Medical College, Indore, Madhyapradesh, India.
authors.forename: Dharamdas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paramhans
authors.forename: Sapna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shukla
authors.forename: Raj Kumar
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Mathur
authors.forename: Bhaskar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Satsangi
authors.forename: Ankur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Batra
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed