Question 95 · LEK · Acute pancreatitis
A patient hospitalized due to acute pancreatitis for two weeks, felt epigastric pain accompanied by increasing fever about three weeks after the discharge from the ward. There is a tumour palpable in the epigastrium. Which of the following is the most probable diagnosis?
- A. pseudocyst.
- B. abscess.
- C. true cyst.
- D. pancreatic cancer.
- E. recurrence of pancreatitis.
Hint
Rising fever, pain and a palpable mass weeks after pancreatitis suggest an infected rather than a sterile process.
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