A Case of Chronic Granulomatous Pancreatitis
We present a 23-year-old woman with a 4-year history of an ambiguous, nonmalignant pancreatic head mass and recurrent nausea/vomiting, right upper quadrant abdominal pain, jaundice, oral feeding intolerance, chronic portal vein thrombosis, and pancytopenia. A multidisciplinary effort with extensive...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American College of Physicians
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases |
| Online Access: | https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2025.0049 |
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| Summary: | We present a 23-year-old woman with a 4-year history of an ambiguous, nonmalignant pancreatic head mass and recurrent nausea/vomiting, right upper quadrant abdominal pain, jaundice, oral feeding intolerance, chronic portal vein thrombosis, and pancytopenia. A multidisciplinary effort with extensive history-taking, laboratory work-up, and repeated endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration narrowed her differential diagnosis—which included IgG4-related disease—into the seventh instance of chronic granulomatous pancreatitis secondary to histoplasmosis that has been reported in the literature to our knowledge. The patient remains symptom free on her year-long course of itraconazole, and her satisfactory outcome is an exemplification of the diagnostic and therapeutic power in specialty consultation by hospitalists. |
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| ISSN: | 2767-7664 |