Congenital pancreatic cyst

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled “Prenatal detection of a congenital pancreatic cyst by ultrasound.” (J Korean Med Sci. 2007 Feb;22(1):156-8). Authors are Choi SJ, Kang MC, Kim YH, et al., from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea. The authors present a case of a fetal pancreatic cyst, a rare disease in fetal life, detected prenatally at 30 weeks’ gestation by ultrasound. Routine ultrasound examination at 30 weeks’ gestation by primary obstetrician showed a cyst on the fetal abdomen. Initially, the suspected diagnosis was a mesenteric cyst. Subsequent ultrasound examination at weeks 32, 36 showed a fetal retroperitoneal cyst. The fetus underwent exploratory laparotomy. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical diagnosis revealed the cyst to be a pancreatic cyst. Surgical outcome was excellent. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.