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Management of pancreatic pseudocyst
Author(s) -
Hiura Akihito,
Satake Katsusuke,
Ha SinSoo,
Nishiwaki Hideki
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of hepato‐biliary‐pancreatic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1868-6982
pISSN - 0944-1166
DOI - 10.1007/bf02391079
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreatitis , pancreatic pseudocyst , etiology , acute pancreatitis , percutaneous , surgery , cyst
The natural course, complications, and management of 37 patients with pancreatic pseudocyst treated at our institution were reviewed. The lesions were classified into three groups, cysts secondary to acute pancreatitis, to chronic pancreatitis, and to trauma. Spontaneous resolution or cyst diminution was observed in 75% of the patients with acute pancreatitis and trauma, but in only 33% of those with chronic pancreatitis. The interval until resolution or diminution in chronic pancreatitis was shorter than that in pseudocyst of other etiologies, but the incidence of complications in patients with chronic pancreatitis was not significantly higher than that among patients with other etiologies. Multiple complications were found only among the patients with chronic pancreatitis. Surgical management was performed in 25% of the patients with acute pancreatitis and trauma and 66% of the patients with chronic pancreatitis. The postoperative mortality rate was 10%. Reoperation was necessary in 6 of 7 patients who had undergone external drainage, including 3 patients treated with ultrasonography‐guided percutaneous catheter drainage (US‐PCD). These results suggest that it is necessary to closely monitor patients with chronic pancreatitis and/or external drainage, and in these patients it may become necessary to reoperate. US‐PCD was useful as an emergency procedure in pseudocyst patients whose general condition was poor, despite the disadvantages of the piercing of adjacent organs by the catheter, infection, and pseudocyst recurrence.