title: Acute inflammation occurring in gastric aberrant pancreas followed up by endoscopic ultrasonography.
abstract: We describe a case of gastric aberrant pancreas with acute pancreatitis followed up with subsequent endoscopic ultrasound. A 20-year-old woman known to have aberrant pancreas in the stomach was admitted to our hospital because of severe epigastralgia. Laboratory tests showed slight C reactive protein elevation without hyperamylasemia. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a swollen submucosal lesion (SML) to a greater degree compared with the previous findings. Subsequent endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) revealed a swollen lesion of 35 mm in diameter. The internal echo-pattern was more hypoechoic than in the previous EUS. The border between the fourth layer (muscularis propria) and the SML was unclear. The anechoic lumen in the mass, considered as the ductal lumen, was dilated. Based on these results, we diagnosed the patient as having acute inflammation, resembling pancreatitis, in the aberrant pancreas.
authors: Ko Watanabe, Tadayuki Takagi, Masaki Sato, Hiromasa Ohira, Division of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
authors: Ko
authors: K
authors: Watanabe
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Irisawa
authors: Takuto
authors: T
authors: Hikichi
authors: Tadayuki
authors: T
authors: Takagi
authors: Goro
authors: G
authors: Shibukawa
authors: Masaki
authors: M
authors: Sato
authors: Katsutoshi
authors: K
authors: Obara
authors: Hiromasa
authors: H
authors: Ohira