Schwannoma of the psoas: an unusual cause of abdominal pain

Schwannomas are usually benign tumours arising from Schwann cells of peripheral nerve sheath. Retroperitoneal location is extremely rare compromising 0.5-5% of all schwannomas, except in patients having von Recklinghausen's disease, in whom retroperitoneal location is more frequent and malignant cases are known to occur. Complete surgical excision with negative margins is the definitive treatment on which the diagnosis is usually made due to nonspecific radiologic appearance. In this article we would like to present an unusual cause of recurrent, abdominal pain in an eighty-sixyear-old male

Pancreatic panniculitis: a rare complication of pancreatitis secondary to ERCP

Panniculitis is an uncommon and rare complication of systemic fat necrosis in patients with pancreatic diseases. The skin manifestations are independent of the severity of the pancreatic pathology and can occur at any time. The lesions can preceed, be concomitant with or rarely follows the pancreatic illness. We report a case of acute pancreatitis post Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatography [ERCP] for common bile duct stone, with subcutaneous panniculitis. We noted a complete resolution within two weeks after the treatment of the pancreatic pathology