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[Adrenal gland necrosis following acute pancreatitis]
Damien Vannespenne1, Romain Gillard1, Louis Deprez1
1Service de Radiodiagnostic, CHU Liège, Belgique.
Abstract:
Acute pancreatitis is a rare pathology, whose incidence tends to increase in Western countries, and whose severity is variable; severe forms (10-20 %) are associated with significant mortality, ranging from 13 to 35 % depending on the studies. Alongside the usual complications of such afflictions, rarer complications, especially related to an adjacent or distant organ involvement, can cause unusual symptoms and contribute to life-threatening risks for the patient. This case illustrates one of these uncommon complications, in the form of necrosis of an adrenal gland in the onset of severe necrotizing pancreatitis, which may lead to chronic adrenal insufficiency.
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