Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm in chronic calcifying pancreatitis:Egg or hen?

作     者：Evangelos Kalaitzakis Barbara Braden Palak Trivedi Yalda Sharifi Roger Chapman 

作者机构：Department of Gastroenterology John Radcliffe HospitalOxford OX3 9DUUnited Kingdom Section of Gastroenterology and HepatologyDepartment of Internal MedicineSahlgrenska University Hospital41345 GothenburgSweden 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Gastroenterology》 (世界胃肠病学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第15卷第10期

页      面：1273-1275页

核心收录：

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm Endoscopic ultrasound Calcifying pancreatitis Carcinoembryonic antigen Endoscopic retrogradecholangiopancreatography 

摘      要：Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm(IPMN)is an increasingly reported *** pancreatic calcification is generally thought to be a sign of chronic pancreatitis,but it may occur simultaneously with IPMN leading to diagnostic *** report a case of a patient initially diagnosed with chronic calcifying pancreatitis who was later shown to have a malignant *** case illustrates potential pitfalls in the diagnosis of IPMN in the case of extensive pancreatic calcification as well as clues that may lead the clinician to suspecting the *** possible mechanisms of the relation between pancreatic calcification and IPMN are also reviewed.