A pancreatic cystadenoma complicated by varices: Case report

Gastrointestinal bleeding in a pregnant woman: mucinous cystic neoplasm of pancreas mimicking gastrointestinal stromal tumor of stomach

“…Sheers [8] reported a 28‐year‐old pregnant woman with anemia and bleeding varices due to splenic vein compression by a tumor described simply as a pancreatic cystadenoma, and this author refers to two earlier reports of splenic vein thrombosis due to compression by a papillary cystadenoma and a unilocular cystadenoma, both in middle‐aged women, and one case of venous infiltration by mucinous cystadenocarcinoma in a 36‐year‐old woman.…”

Severe intestinal bleeding due to sinistral portal hypertension after pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy

“…Chronic pancreatitis is the most common cause [8], and any type of pancreatic disease is likely to involve the splenic vein [1,[9][10][11][12]. Various disorders other than pancreatic diseases can also cause splenic vein thrombosis/obstruction, although they are rare [1,…”

Left-Sided Portal Hypertension

“…Also, SVT may occur silently, as a complication of mild pancreatitis [7,8]. [3,8,10,16,23,28] Familial pancreatitis [16,29] Traumatic pancreatitis [13] b. Pancreas malignancies Adenocarcinoma [3,5,24] Islet cell carcinoma [30][31][32] Cystadenoma [5,33] Pancreatic lymphoma [16] c. Other pancreatic causes Pancreatic pseudocysts [3,5,23,26,35] Pancreatic abscess [1] Pancreatic divisum [23] Pancreatic transplantation [16] Congenital cyst [36] Pancreatic pseudotumor [37] 2. Nonpancreatic disorders a. Surgical procedures Umbilical vein catheterization [38] Partial gastrectomy [39] Distal splenorenal shunt [16] Splenectomy [2,16] Selective venous catheterization [16] b. Metastatic carcinoma Lymphoma [3,16] Oat cell carcinoma [5] Retroperitoneal liposarcoma [16] Renal cancer [3,40] Gastric cancer [22] Colon cancer [3,22] c. Miscellan...…”