Successful transcatheter embolization of pseudoaneurysm associated with pancreatic pseudocyst.

Morita, R; Muto, N; Konagaya, M; Honda, T; Miyazawa, M; Nakazawa, S; Kondo, N; Kimura, N et al. · Am J Gastroenterol · 1991

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Hemorrhage into a pancreatic pseudocyst is a rare event, but is the most rapidly lethal complication of chronic pancreatitis. Visceral-vessel aneurysms are an unexpectedly common finding in arteriography of patients with chronic pancreatitis. This case report describes bleeding from an anterior superior pancreaticoduodenal artery aneurysm, caused by chronic pancreatitis. The aneurysm was successfully treated by embolization with a steel coil.

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