HPB Surgery

Spontaneous rupture of mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas

Atindriya Biswas and Satyajit Bhattacharya

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...

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(Vol 7 p 1-4, HPB surgery: 2 February 2007)

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