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[Acute pancreatitis after bilateral laparoscopic adrenalectomy in patients with ectopic ACTH syndrome]
P Cougard1, J L Peix, F Peschaud
1Service de chirurgie générale et endocrinienne, hôpital général, 3, rue du Faubourg-Raines, 21033 Dijon, France.
Annales De Chirurgie
|June 21, 2001
Abstract:
Two cases of acute necrotizing pancreatitis after bilateral laparoscopic adrenalectomy were observed in patients with an ectopic ACTH syndrome. Two reasons may be suspected: the difficulty of dissection in such patients and the specific morbidity in relation to hypercorticism.