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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-7-30
pubmed:abstractText
Since pancreatitis can be produced experimentally in dogs by embolization of microspheres into the pancreatic arterial circulation, there has been speculation that intentional or inadvertent embolization of the pancreas in human subjects could also produce pancreatitis. Although such therapeutic embolization has increased, no pathologically documented case of this complication has been recorded. We have reported the first such case occurring in a patient with a large, highly vascular, nonfunctioning islet cell carcinoma of the tail of the pancreas preoperatively embolized with Gianturco coils and Gelfoam particles suspended in sodium tetradecylsulfate solution to facilitate distal pancreatectomy. The resultant hemorrhagic pancreatitis and duodenal necrosis required a total pancreatectomy. We conclude that, by itself, occlusion of the origin of the splenic and gastroduodenal arteries with coils would have been effective and without complication; however, the addition of Gelfoam particles in a sclerosing solution reduced the microscopic pancreatic circulation to a critical point and resulted in hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0002-9610
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
149
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
802-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-4-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Hemorrhagic pancreatitis: a complication of transcatheter embolization treated successfully by total pancreatectomy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports