Acute Pancreas to a Cute Pancreas

Introducing a Specimen of Annular Pancreas (with late-onset Symptoms)

Annular pancreas is a relatively rare congenital diseasecaused by an embryologica1and anatomical disturbance in pancreas It may have no sympforns throughout the life and so occasionally discovered during an unrelevant surgery or autopsy but in most of the cases it shows itself as a duodenal obstruction during the in­fancy and childhood.Very rarely symptoms of the disease my be obser­ved in adul...

Cystic Teratoma of the Pancreas

Congenital cystic lesions of the pancreas are rare findings. Furthermore, dermoid cyst of the pancreas is exceptionally uncommon. A review of the world literature showed that only 18 documented cases of dermoid cyst of the pancreas were reported so far. The pre-operative evaluation of this lesion is rather questionable, with definitive diagnosis taking place intra-operatively. Herein, we presen...

Pancreas divisum and acute or chronic pancreatitis.

Acute Hemorrhagic Necrosis of the Pancreas *

Within the last ten or fifteen years hardly a volume of the larger medical or surgical journals has failed to contain several artides on acute pancreatitis, acute pancreatic necrosis, or hemorrhagic pancreatitis. The condition is not rare enough to warrant the report of four new cases were not these cases unusual in their acute onset and rapidly fatal course. The term acute hemorrhagic necrosis...

Trauma to the Pancreas

Introduction Advances in diagnostic imaging have led to remarkable improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic disorders. However, the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic injury remains perplexing. Since the pancreas is a retroperitoneal organ that is narrow and elongated mediolateraly, diagnosing only the presence or absence of injury, let alone its location and extent, is difi...