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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 99, 642-644, Copyright © 1967 by American Roentgen Ray Society

VANISHING PANCREATIC CALCIFICATIONS

A CASE REPORT

HAROLD A. BALTAXE M.D.1 and EUGENE V. LESLIE M.D.1

1 From the Department of Radiology, Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital and The State University of New York at Buffalo

A second case of vanishing pancreatic calcifications is reported. Such calcifications, as identified on scout roentgenograrms of the abdomen, are virtually pathognomonic of "drunkard's pancreatitis." Reportedly, 25 per cent of patients with pancreatic calcification develop carcinoma. The only previous case of vanishing calcifications was associated with the development of pancreatic carcinoma. The present case represents a contrary experience and was associated only with chronic pancreatitis. The disappearance commenced 4 years after sphincterotomy and the cessation of ingestion of alcohol and was the apparent consequence of the passage of multiple intraductal calculi through the dilated ductal systerm.


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