Intrahepatic pancreatic pseudocyst: A review of the world literature

Table 1 Published cases

Ref.	Year	Language	Clinical features
Gautier-Benoit et al[12]	1974	French	Abdominal pain, weight loss
Cécile et al[10]	1974	French	Same patient as published by Gautier
Quevedo et al[16]	1975	Portuguese	Unknown location, died prior to intervention
Siegelman et al[4]	1980	English	Edematous pancreas, IHPP aspirated
Epstein et al[21]	1982	English	2 patients. Abdominal pain, distension, vomiting, diarrhea, chest pain, ascites
Hospitel et al[18]	1983	French	Abdominal pain, jaundice, palpable liver
Atienza et al[38]	1987	French	Weight loss, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly
Roche et al[11]	1987	French	Abdominal pain, febrile
Shimayama et al[39]	1988	Japanese	Abdominal pain
Lantink et al[22]	1989	English	Abdominal pain
Schaefer et al[8]	1989	German	Abdominal pain, anorexia, DVT/PE
Okuda et al[34]	1991	English	2 patients, abdominal pain, anorexia, guarding; 1 resolved spontaneously
Slim et al[40]	1992	French	Right epigastric pain
Aiza et al[37]	1993	English	Abd pain, fever, weight loss
Hamm et al[5]	1993	German	8 patients
Králík et al[9]	1993	Czech	Abdominal pain, pruritis, dark urine, light stools
Wang et al[27]	1993	English	Abdominal pain, weight loss
Scappaticci et al[35]	1995	English	Abdominal pain, blood per rectum
Bayo Poleo et al[41]	1997	Spanish	Epigstric pain and tenderness, perotinitis
Lederman et al[23]	1997	French	Abdominal pain, palpable liver
Mehler et al[30]	1998	French	3 patients, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, guarding
Mofredj et al[6]	2000	English	Abdominal pain, tenderness, guarding, diarrhea
Sugiyama et al[42]	2000	Japanese	Abdominal pain
Shibaski et al[33]	2002	English	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, epigastric tenderness
Bong et al[43]	2003	Korean	Abdominal pain
Ancel et al[44]	2005	French	Abdominal pain
Balzan et al[29]	2005	English	Abdominal pain, cystic dystrophy of duodenal wall
Bhasin et al[25]	2005	English	Abdominal pain
Gamanagatti et al[20]	2006	English	Abdominal pain, rigid abdomen
Les et al[17]	2006	English	Vomiting, melena, tachycardia
Casado et al[26]	2007	English	Abdominal pain, nausea
Yi et al[45]	2008	Korean	Abdominal pain
Al-Ani et al[19]	2009	English	Epigastric pain, fever, diaphoresis, guarding, palpable abdominal mass
Atia et al[36]	2009	English	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, hepatomegaly
Chahal et al[13]	2009	English	Abdominal pain
Guesmi et al[7]	2009	English	Abdominal pain, vomiting, weight loss
Bhasin et al[24]	2010	English	2 patients, abdominal pain
Kibria et al[14]	2010	English	Abdominal pain
Baydar et al[15]	2013	English	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, jaundice
Devangan et al[28]	2015	English	Abdominal pain, weight loss, anorexia, palpable epigastric mass
Martínez-Sanz et al[46]	2015	English	Abdominal pain
Current case	2016	English	Abdominal pain

DVT: Deep-vein thrombosis; PE: Pulmonary embolism; IHPP: Intrahepatic pancreatic pseudocysts.

Table 2 Summary of cases (n = 54)

Mean age (range)	Gender (%)	No. of IHPP (% of cases)	Size (range)	Location (%, n)	No. of interventions (%, n)1	Intervention(%, n)2	Infection(%, n)3
49 (15-76) yr	Male (80%)	1 (67)	9.5 (3-18) cm	Right lobe (11%, 6)	0 (9%, 4)	Operative (25%, 15)	Culture positive (16%, 5)
		2 (15)		Left lobe (48%, 26)	1 (60%, 27)	Simple aspiration (28%, 17)
	Female (20%)	3 (13)		Right and left lobes (17%, 9)	2 (24%, 11)	Percutaneous drainage (28%, 17)	Culture negative (84%, 27)
		4 (4)		Unavailable (24%, 13)	3 (7%, 3)	Endoscopic (8%, 5)

¹Excludes three cases lacking mention of an intervention, and two cases with non-IHPP interventions;

²Accounts for total number of interventions performed on patient population; some patients underwent several interventions. Does not include those patients who underwent nasopancreatic drainage (5%, 3) or medical intervention (5%, 3);

³Excludes 15 reports which did not make mention of culture status. IHPP: Intrahepatic pancreatic pseudocysts.