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Gastroenterologie
a hepatologie

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Gastroent Hepatol 2011; 65(6): 343-347.

From drainage of the cystoid to pancreatic cancer

Gabriela Suchánková Orcid.org  1, Petr Štirand Orcid.org  2, Luděk Voska Orcid.org  3, Julius Špičák Orcid.org  2

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Summary

Pancreatic cancer tumours are among those tumours with a high malignant potential. Most patients with pancreatic cancer experience dyspepsia, pain in the upper abdomen or jaundice, and sometimes also acute pancreatitis. In our text we describe the case of a patient with repeated attacks of acute pancreatitis, which were followed by the development of a large pseudocyst and then after a longtime pancreatic cancer was diagnosed. In this case report we would like to showthe very difficult differential diagnostic of a wide spectrum of cystic lesions of the pancreas.

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