Pancreatic pleural effusion with a pancreaticopleural fistula diagnosed by magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and cured by somatostatin analogue treatment

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 92-95

  Akahane, T ^a   Kuriyama, S ^b   Matsumoto, M ^a   Kikuchi, E ^a   Kikukawa, M ^a   Yoshiji, H ^a   Masui, K ^a   Fukui, H ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic pancreatitis; Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography; Octreotide; Pancreatic pleural effusion; Pancreaticopleural fistula; Somatostatin analogue

Indexed keywords

GABEXATE MESILATE; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; ULINASTATIN;

AGED; ALCOHOLIC PANCREATITIS; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS PERFUSION; PANCREAS PLEURA FISTULA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BILIARY TRACT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC FISTULA; PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA;

EID: 0242416534     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-001-0144-2     Document Type: Article

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