Author(s)

Lei Ning ¹, Yizhong Wu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Normal University Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China

Corresponding Author

Yizhong Wu

ABSTRACT

Groove pancreatitis (GP) is a rare chronic pancreatitis. Its lesions involve the potential space between the pancreatic head, the 'C'ring of the duodenum, and the common bile duct. Due to its special location, its pathogenesis is still unclear and its clinical manifestations lack specificity. Its clinical manifestations are similar to those of pancreatic cancer, leading to difficulties in preoperative diagnosis and easy to be misdiagnosed. Imaging examination can often find duodenal wall thickening and small cysts, sometimes the main pancreatic duct and pancreatic head stenosis, distal dilatation, which is helpful for the diagnosis of GP, but the final diagnosis still depends on pathological diagnosis. At present, there is no unified diagnostic criteria for GP. Patients with highly suspected GP who do not improve after conservative treatment should undergo pancreaticoduodenectomy as soon as possible to confirm the diagnosis. Here, we report a case of a 67-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital for pancreatic cancer and underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy. The postoperative pathological findings were groove pancreatitis.

KEYWORDS

Groove pancreatitis; pancreatic cancer; pancreaticoduodenectomy

CITE THIS PAPER

Lei Ning, Yizhong Wu, Case Report: Groove pancreatitis masquerading as pancreatic cancer: A case report. MEDS Clinical Medicine (2024) Vol. 5: 101-104. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/medsc.2024.050216.

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