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This is a very interesting case,

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patient presenting with recurrent pain abdomen episodes

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of pancreatitis, and see what we have in this case.

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So, this is T2-weighted, non-fat

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suppressed images on axial, and we can see

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a classical appearance of the pancreas.

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As we move further, we are still dealing with the

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stomach, and as soon as we reach the stomach

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pylorus and antrum region, we see a cystic lesion,

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which is lying just along with the

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anterior aspect of the stomach.

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And as we scroll through, we see the similar kind

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of tissue, like pancreas, situated underneath the

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surface of the gastric antrum and the pylorus.

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And there are some cystic areas,

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like a chain of balls here, along with the

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underneath surface of that cystic lesion.

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And as we scroll further, we can see

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actually this is a communication between

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the pancreatic tissue and the similar

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tissue which is lying in that area.

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And that tissue actually has different branching

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of the ductal pattern, which is kind of

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haphazardly located throughout the parenchyma.

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And they actually communicate

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with the main pancreatic duct.

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So if you look, keep looking here on the main

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pancreatic duct, it actually communicates

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with the ductal system within

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this complex arrangement of the tissue

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underneath the surface of the stomach.

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So this is actually a case of ectopic pancreas,

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which is lying inside the wall of the stomach.

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Okay.

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Thanks.

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And that is leading to multiple episodes

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of recurrent pancreatitis, and this cyst

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which we are seeing in the wall

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of the stomach is basically a pseudocyst.

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We can see the same finding on

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the coronal and find it better.

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Coronal, once we scroll down, we can

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see the tissue going along with the

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stomach and that complex ductal pattern

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that drains towards the cyst we have

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just described in the previous sequence.

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So, ectopic tissue of the

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pancreas can be located anywhere.

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Sometimes they are within

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the wall of the duodenum.

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Sometimes they are situated

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in the wall of the stomach.

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And that can lead to pancreatitis.

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Faculty

Neeraj Lalwani, MD, FSAR, DABR

Professor and Chief of Abdominal Radiology

Montefiore Medical Center, New York

Tags

Pancreas

Non-infectious Inflammatory

MRI

Idiopathic

Congenital

Body

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