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Hwang: Acute Pancreatitis Caused by Acupuncture Therapy
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The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology

The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology 2012; 60(4): 267-269.

Published online: 20 October 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4166/kjg.2012.60.4.267

Acute Pancreatitis Caused by Acupuncture Therapy

Jin-Hyeok Hwang

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Correspondence to: Jin-Hyeok Hwang, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 166 Gumiro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-707, Korea. Tel: +82-31-787-7017, Fax: +82-31-787-4051, woltoong@snu.ac.kr

Copyright © 2012 The Korean Society of Gastroenterology

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Initial outside abdominal CT scan showed ill-defined low attenuated lesion in the pancreatic body.

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Abdominal CT scan was checked again 4 days later. Peripancreatic infiltration was worse than before.

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Follow-up CT scan was taken 3 weeks later. About 2 cm sized mutilocular cystic lesion was noticed in the pancreatic body.

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Follow-up CT scan was taken 3 months later. Pancreatic pseudocyst disappeared.

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Notes

Financial support: None.

Conflict of interest: None.

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