Spontaneous rupture of mucinous
cystadenoma of the pancreas
Atindriya Biswas and Satyajit Bhattacharya
Department of Surgery, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK
Corresponding address:
Mr S Bhattacharya,
Consultant Surgeon,
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic
Surgery Unit,
The Royal London Hospital,
Whitechapel Road,
London E1 1BB, UK.
E-mail: s.bhattacharya@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk
Pancreatic cysts that develop after abdominal trauma are generally considered to be pseudocysts.
We present a patient with a post-traumatic peri-pancreatic cyst that later ruptured suddenly,
leading to an acute abdomen. Following an urgent laparotomy and excision of the cyst,
post-operative histopathological assessment showed this to be a mucinous cystadenoma of the
pancreas. We have reviewed the literature on spontaneous rupture of mucinous cystadenomas
of the pancreas.
Key words
Mucinous cystadenoma; cystic neoplasm of pancreas; unusual causes of acute abdomen.
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