Pancreatic Abscesses
- 14 December 1972
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 287 (24) , 1234-1236
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197212142872406
Abstract
PANCREATIC abscesses are collections of pus and devitalized tissue within the pancreas or extending out from it. Untreated, they give rise to severe and often dramatic complications and are almost uniformly fatal.1 2 3 4 5 6 In contrast to pseudocysts of the pancreas, which contain sterile pancreatic secretions and debris, pancreatic abscesses are bona-fide infections, with bacteria recovered in over 90 per cent of cases.1 2 3 4 5 6 Clinical PictureAlthough some patients have a pancreatic abscess during the first manifestations of illness, most abscesses occur as a complication of pancreatitis having the usual distribution of antecedents: alcoholism and gallstones predominate, with most of the rest due . . .Keywords
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