Valuable Experience of a Missed Spontaneous Duodenal Fistula Resulting in Complete Duodenal Occlusion in Severe Acute Pancreatitis
- 1. Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, China
- 2. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Chronic Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Xiamen University Affiliated ZhongShan Hospital), China
Abstract
Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is a devastating disease that is characterized with high mortality due to the development of Local or systemic complications, such as infected pancreatic and extra-pancreatic necrosis (IPN), multisystem organ failure. Gastrointestinal fistula (GIF) is a well-recognized complication secondary to SAP and has been attracting much attention. But complete duodenal occlusion (CDO) is an extremely rare complication secondary to GIF in patients with SAP. In this paper we describe a case of missed spontaneous duodenal fistula resulting in CDO in patients with SAP.