Acute relapsing pancreatitis (ARP) with pseudocyst formation due to sporadic hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis in a 25 yrs old male: Case report

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Department of General Surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

We wish to report a rare case of relapsing acute pancreatitis due to atypical sporadic hypertriglyceridemia (Frederickson's type IV) in a young male patient who presented first time to us with acute abdominal pain in the emergency department at Eldemerdash university hospital on January 2008.