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A CASE OF PANCREATITIS ASSOCIATED WITH GASTRINOMA
Author(s) -
Danne P. D.,
Buls J. G.,
Connell J.,
Bennett R. C.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1985.tb00888.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gastrinoma , pancreatitis , general surgery , gastroenterology , secretion , gastrin
A case is presented of a 56 year old man with a history of idiopathic pancreatitis and multiple admissions for Klebsiella sepsis from an intra‐abdominal focus, who in February 1980, developed spontaneous jejunal perforations on two occasions due to multiple ulcers in the small intestine associated with multiple hepatic metastases from a gastrin‐secreting islet‐cell tumor (gastrinoma) of the pancreas. On searching the literature, no other record could be found of an association between pancreatitis and a gastrinoma, although in this patient the two disease processes appear to be inextricably related.