Imitators of chronic pancreatitis: diffuse neuroendocrine tumour of the pancreas

Acute pancreatitis associated with neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas.

CONTEXT Endocrine tumors are a less commonly known cause of acute pancreatitis. This report presents the case of a patient who have had acute pancreatitis secondary to a pancreatic endocrine neoplasm. The majority of the cases previously reported were non-functioning tumors and the pancreatitis tended to be mild. Moreover, the majority of the tumors were diagnosed in advanced stages, hindering ...

Pancreas divisum and acute or chronic pancreatitis.

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Neuroendocrine islet cell tumour producing gastrin and ACTH in a patient with calcifying chronic pancreatitis.

A patient with a calcifying chronic pancreatitis was found to have a neuroendocrine islet cell tumour (a previously unreported association). The tumour secreted both gastrin and ACTH leading to clinical manifestations of both the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and Cushing's syndrome.

Missed curable carcinoma of the pancreas presenting as chronic pancreatitis.

We present a case of pancreatic malignancy which presented as chronic pancreatitis. The diagnostic difficulties are discussed. We recommend that when there is any doubt about a diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis with a pancreatic mass, then early resection is appropriate.