Pancreaticopleural fistula and mediastinal pseudocyst: An unusual presentation of acute pancreatitis

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 122-123

  Moorthy, Nagaraja ^a   Raveesha, A ^a   Prabhakar, K ^a  

^a SRI DEVARAJ URS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Mediastinal pseudocyst; Pancreaticopleural fistula

Indexed keywords

OCTREOTIDE;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM CYST; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS PLEURA FISTULA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PSEUDOCYST; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SMOKING; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 34547683312     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.33701     Document Type: Article

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