Pancreatic Pseudocyst of the Mediastinum

Endoscopic management of pancreatic pseudocysts at atypical locations

“…The management options for these patients include conservative medical therapy, percutaneous drainage, endoscopic drainage or surgery. Most of the patients with pseudocysts at atypical locations have been treated either by surgery or by percutaneous drainage [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Literature assessing and supporting endoscopic drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts at atypical locations is scant and in the form of case reports only [2-4, 6, 8, 19].…”

“…While endoscopic drainage has been successfully used in patients with abdominal pseudocysts, there are only a few reports describing successful resolution of mediastinal pseudocysts with endoscopic interventions [3,6,8,19,[30][31][32][33][34][35]. Mallavarapu et al [31] reported two patients with mediastinal pseudocyst.…”

“…Because of their rarity, the published experience has been only in the form of case reports and the majority of these patients have been treated either by surgery or by percutaneous drainage [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

Mediastinal Pancreatic Pseudocyst With Acute Airway Obstruction

“…4,7,16 The predominant cause cited in adults is alcoholic pancreatitis (75-90%), whereas in children trauma is more frequent. 17 Common presentations include pleural effusion, hemothorax, chest pain, pancreatic-thoracic fistula, dysphagia, and esophagobronchial fistula. 3,7,8,18,19 Unlike peripancreatic pseudocysts, spontaneous regression of mediastinal pancreatic pseudocysts is rare.…”

An Unusual Location of a False Cyst of the Pancreas about a Case (Central African Republic)

“…The migration tendency of the liquid is a common feature. This is readily up, can win the mediastinum through the esophageal or aortic orifice, or by dissecting the diaphragm [9][10][11]. Clinically, no symptoms are not clean.…”