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Gray-scale echography of traumatic pancreatic cysts in children

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We report two cases of pancreatic pseudocysts in children developing after blunt trauma to the abdomen. Gray-scale echography provides a safe and exact method in establishing the diagnosis and in the follow-up of the disease. In one case the pancreatic pseudocyst resolved spontaneously justifying our opinion that not all pseudocysts require surgical intervention provided the appropriate clinical, laboratory and echographic controls are available.

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Harkányi, Z., Végh, M., Hittner, I. et al. Gray-scale echography of traumatic pancreatic cysts in children. Pediatr Radiol 11, 81–82 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00971784

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