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We report two patients who had non-surgical management of Pancreatic Pseudocyst. The first patient presented with acute pancreatitis and intestinal obstruction, had laparatomy and found to have hemorrhagic pancreatitis and impacted gallstone in terminal item which was removed. Two weeks after laparatomy U/S and CT showed a dilated CBD and two Pancreatic Pseudocysts. ERCP showed dilated CBD. Endoscopic sphincterotomy and stent insertion in CBD and Cystoduodenostomy was done. A percutaneous drainage was done for the pseudocyst involving the body of the pancreas. The second patient presented abdominal pain and clinically had an abdominal mass which was shown by CT as Pseudopancreatic cyst. This was drained percutaneously and given treatment with somatostatin with good outcome.
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PMID:Non surgical management of pancreatic pseudocyst: two case reports and review of the literature. 890 70

Pancreatic pseudocyst is a know complication of acute pancreatitis and pancreatic trauma. The treatment of pancreatitis remains a challenge and the pancreatic pseudocyst is often approached surgically. Lately, the use of somatostatin and its long-acting analogue octreotide have proved useful in the treatment of pancreatitis and its complications in adults. This is the first report on the use of somatostatin in the treatment of a pancreatic pseudocyst in a child. We present the case of a posttraumatic pancreatic pseudocyst in a 10-year-old boy, regressing rapidly under somatostatin treatment, by which means surgical re-intervention could be avoided.
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PMID:Somatostatin in the treatment of a pancreatic pseudocyst in a child. 895 80