title: Giant pancreatic pseudocyst.
abstract: A 56 years old man presented with epigastric pain and abdominal distension. He suffered an attack of acute pancreatitis 6 weeks back followed by pseudopancreatic cyst formation. As the cyst kept on enlarging in size despite being on conservative management, the patient was operated after 5 weeks. A huge pancreatic pseudocyst was found containing about 4.5 liters of fluid. Cystogastrostomy was performed and the patient recovered un-eventfully. It was the third largest pancreatic pseudocyst reported so far.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad. draslamshah@gmail.com
authors.forename: Syed Aslam
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Muhammad Tariq
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Abdullah
authors.forename: Abdul Hadi
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Kakar
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zubair
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde / Q000379:methods; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome