Pancreatic pseudocyst in a child due to blunt andominal trauma during a football game.
Pancreatic pseudocyst in children due to abdominal trauma is a rare entity. We report a 14-year-old boy suffering from acute pancreatitis due to blunt abdominal trauma that occurred during a football game, and resulted in a large pseudocyst formation. The child was treated conservatively for the post traumatic acute pancreatitis for 4 weeks and thereafter he was followed up for another 2 weeks. At the end of the 6 weeks after the first insult, the child underwent an open cystgastrostomy. Postoperative course was uneventful and the child was discharged on the 6(th) postoperative day.
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Giakoustidis
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Antoniadis
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Giorgakis
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Tsoulfas
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Dimitriadis
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Giakoustidis
child; cystgastrostomy; pancreatic; pseudocyst