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Although surgery is the usual treatment of choice for pancreatic trauma with disruption of the main pancreatic duct, we report herein the case of a patient in whom blunt pancreatic trauma with disruption of the proximal main pancreatic duct was successfully managed by conservative treatment. An 18-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain 22 days after being involved in a car accident in which her upper abdomen was thrust against the steering wheel. Computed tomography revealed a pancreatic pseudocyst and a prevertebral pancreatic fracture, and endoscopic retrograde pancreatography showed complete disruption of the main pancreatic duct at the neck. Considering that the patient had been clinically stable since the accident, we elected to continue with conservative management and placed her on total parenteral nutrition. Rapid recovery followed and 6 years later, the patient remains well without any exocrine or endocrine insufficiency despite atrophy of the distal pancreas. This experience indicates that selected cases of main pancreatic duct disruption following blunt trauma may be amenable to conservative management.
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Shirai, Y., Tsukada, K., Yamadera, Y. et al. Blunt pancreatic trauma with main pancreatic duct disruption managed successfully with total parenteral nutrition: Report of a case. Surg Today 25, 76–78 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309392
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