PSEUDOCYST OF PANCREAS PRESENTING AS BILATERAL PLEURAL EFFUSION A RARE CASE ENTITY
Priyansh Bhayani, Bharadwaj Ravi, Akash Daswaney and Sunil Kumar*
ABSTRACT
Pleural effusion as a consequence of acute pancreatitis is transient, usually left-sided; rarely right-sided and haemorrhagic causing difficulty in establishing the diagnosis, especially if the chest symptoms are disproportionately more than the abdominal symptoms. We present a case of an alcoholic male patient who presented with a history of pain in abdomen, no respiratory symptoms. His Ultrasonography of Abdomen was suggestive of multiple pseudocyst of pancreas with bilateral pleural effusion.
Keywords: Pleural effusion as a consequence of acute pancreatitis is transient, usually left-sided; rarely right-sided and haemorrhagic causing difficulty in establishing the diagnosis, especially if the chest symptoms are disproportionately more than the abdominal
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