Acute pancreatitis caused by a duodenal duplication cyst covering the ampulla of Vater

• Main Authors: Katsuhiro Ogawa (Author), Yutaka Kanamori (Author), Toshihiko Watanabe (Author), Kotaro Tomonaga (Author), Mai Kutsukake (Author), Michiko Goto (Author), Michinobu Ohno (Author), Kazunori Tahara (Author), Tomoro Hishiki (Author), Akihiro Fujino (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Duodenal duplication cyst is not a common congenital anomaly and the pathophysiology may become very complicated if the cyst is situated at the ampulla of Vater. Here we report a very rare female case of duodenal duplication cyst at the ampulla of Vater, which caused acute pancreatitis due to massiv...