A Case of Granulomatous Pancreatitis Caused by Syphilis / 대한내과학회지
Korean Journal of Medicine
; : 696-701, 1997.
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ABSTRACT
Granulomatous pancreatitis is a granulomatous inflammatory disease of the pancreas and can he described only in infectious granulomas and pancreatic involvement by systemic granulomatosis. Sarcoidosis, isolated pancreatic involvement without systemic granulomatosis or a manifestation of systemic sarcoidosis, is more common cause of granulo-mataus pancreatitis than infectious granuloma. There has been some reports show a characteristic histological finding of the pancreatic involvement of sarcoidasis. Noncaseating granuloma is thought to be the characteristic finding of pancreatic sarcoidosis. But granulomatous pancreatitis caused by syphilis in a syrnptomatic patient is a very rare disease and, till now, to our knowledge, only a case was reported in 1987, Germany. We experienced a 55-year-old female patient with granulomatous pancreatitis caused by tertiary syphilis who presented as a recent onset jaundice, diarrhea, fatigue and vague epigastric discomfort. Radical pancreaticoduo-denectomy was performed, which showed noncaseating granulomatous pancratitis with vasculitis. To our knowledge, this is the first case of granulomatous pancreatitis caused by syphilis in Korea. We hereby report a case of granulomatous pancreatitis caused by syphilis with a brief review of literature.
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Main subject:
Pancreas
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Pancreatitis
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Sarcoidosis
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Vasculitis
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Syphilis
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Rare Diseases
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Diarrhea
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Fatigue
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Germany
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Granuloma
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Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
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Europa
Language:
Ko
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medicine
Year:
1997
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Article