Laparoscopic management of pseudocyst of the pancreas in a pregnant patient.

Gallstone pancreatitis is a rare problem in pregnant patients. A primigravida with persistent symptoms of abdomen pain, nausea, vomiting, and inability to tolerate oral diet presented at 5 weeks of pregnancy. A laparoscopic cystogastrostomy with cholecystectomy was performed at 13 weeks of pregnancy. There are only 10 case reports in literature of pseudocyst in pregnancy and in none of them ante partum surgical management was done.