title: A giant pancreatic pseudocyst treated by open cystogastrostomy.
abstract: We report a case of a giant pancreatic pseudocyst in a 33-year-old woman presenting with abdominal pain, loss of appetite and abdominal distension. CT scans revealed a giant pancreatic pseudocyst measuring 10.3 cm × 9.6 cm × 9.3 cm anteroposteriorly, with significant compression of the stomach. An open retrogastric cystogastrostomy was performed through a midline incision, and 3 L of fluid was drained from the pseudocyst. Recovery has been uneventful.
authors.affiliation: First Department of General, Oncological and Gastrointestinal Surgery; Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland. artpast@tlen.pl.
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pasternak
authors.forename: Przemysław
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wawok
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Richter
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Cystogastrostomy; Giant Pancreatic Pseudocyst