Treatment of Pancreatic Ascites with Somatostatin
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pancreas
- Vol. 8 (1) , 120-122
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006676-199301000-00021
Abstract
Pancreatic ascites is a rare complication of chronic pancreatitis, whose treatment continues to represent a difficult clinical problem. In this report we describe a case of a patient with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic ascites who was successfully treated with somatostatin given by continuous intravenous infusion of 1.5 micrograms/kg/h for 2 weeks.Keywords
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