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Intrapancreatic air has been considered a reliable sign of pancreatic abscess (PA), although it can also be associated with other pancreatic diseases. We report here the clinical outcome of two patients with acute pancreatitis with gas in the retrogastric region suggestive of an abscess. Both patients exhibited a good clinical course with no evidence of sepsis. They were treated with analgesics and one of them with antibiotics. Control CT scans showed disappearance of liquid collections and intrapancreatic gas. In one case an endoscopy disclosed a gastric ulcer with changes suggesting a pancreatic fistula. This report shows that intrapancreatic air may mimic PA in cases with acute pancreatitis without septic complications.
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PMID:[Pancreatic gas with no evidence of abscess. Report of 2 cases]. 194 75

Conventional transcutaneous ultrasound examinations are often compromised by intervening pulmonary or bowel gas and have limited resolution. Ultrasonic probes of frequencies greater than 5 MHz, which enhance resolution, cannot be used successfully on the skin surface, because they do not penetrate deeply enough to view intraabdominal organs in most adults. To overcome these problems, we tested an ultrasonic endoscope which had a 10-MHz, 64-element linear assay, generated real-time images at resolutions of less than 1 mm, and was an integral part of a 35-mm-long and 13-mm-wide endoscopic rigid tip. Thirty-two studies were performed in 15 healthy subjects, 4 patients with pancreatic cancer and 6 patients with chronic pancreatitis, and 1 patient each with a gastric ulcer and a suspected pancreatic abscess. We demonstrated that this procedure is safe, provides high resolution real-time ultrasound visualization of the heart, aorta, spleen, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and gastrointestinal mucosa and can detect moderate-sized pancreatic tumors and hepatic metastases less than 1 cm in diameter. Because endoscopic visualization of gastrointestinal mucosa and ultrasound examination of extraluminal organs can be obtained during a single procedure, rapid differentiation among mucosal and intramural disease of the hollow gut and disease of extraluminal organs should be possible with this diagnostic technique.
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PMID:Human endoscopic ultrasonography. 710 13