Journal of Rare Disorders: Diagnosis & Therapy

A Rare Case of an Intrapancreatic Gastric Duplication Cyst as the Cause of Recurrent Pancreatitis. Literature Review of Gastric Duplication Cysts in Adult Population

Duplication cysts of the Gastrointestinal (GI) tract are a rare congenital disease usually presenting in childhood. They may be located at any level of the GI tract but are more frequent in the ileum, followed by the esophagus, the duodenum and stomach. Gastric Duplication Cysts (GDC) account for approximately 4%-8% of all GI duplication cysts. We herein present a case of an 18-year-old male with familiar hypertriglyceridemia who was diagnosed with a 17 cm benign intrapancreatic GDC etiologically related to his recurrent pancreatitis since the age of 9 years old. Magnetic resonance imaging (T1, T2, and DWI weighted), Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and computed tomography were utilized for the preoperative evaluation which showed a non-communicating gastric duplication cyst surrounded by the pancreatic tail and the spleen. The diagnosis was based on histopathological examination of the resected specimen.

Author(s): Konstantinos S Flamourakis1*, Nikolaos Memos1, Dimitrios P Bouklas2, Despoina Myoteri2, Manousos M Konstadoulakis1 and Dina G Tiniakos2

Abstract | Full-Text | PDF

Share this