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Pseudotumor of the pancreas associated with retroperitoneal fibrosis: a dramatic response to corticosteroid therapy
A Chutaputti1, M I Burrell, J L Boyer
1Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 69-yr-old man with a past medical history of aortic aneurysm and retroperitoneal fibrosis presented with obstructive jaundice and radiographic features suggesting sclerosing cholangitis and malignancy of the head of the pancreas. A presumptive diagnosis of chronic periaortitis was made, and a dramatic response to corticosteroid therapy was subsequently observed. The clinical course of seven additional patients with pseudotumor of the pancreas associated with retroperitoneal fibrosis is also reviewed; three of those patients also responded favorably to corticosteroid treatment.