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Case Report

Volume 9, Number 5, May 2018, pages 154-156

A Rare Case of Pancreatitis From Pancreatic Herniation

Figure

Figure 1. (a) A vertically orientated pancreas is observed with no torsion or malrotation evident. The tail of pancreas, the distal pancreatic body and the majority of stomach is above diaphragm. The head of pancreas and uncinate process is seen below the diaphragm. (b) The stomach and pancreas are seen in the thoracic cavity in this axial image. (c) The stomach and tail of the pancreas are seen in this coronal image.

Table

**Table 1.** Cases of Acute Pancreatitis From Trans-Diaphragmatic Hernia of Pancreas
Case	Author	Year	Age/gender	Part of pancreas herniated	Surgery pursued?
M: male; F: female; N/A: not applicable.
1	Cuschieri et al [11]	1981	19/M	Tail only	Yes
2	Oliver et al [10]	1990	5/M	Tail only	Yes
3	Kafka et al [12]	1994	N/A	N/A	Yes
4	Chevallier et al [7]	2001	70/M	Body and tail	Yes
5	Rozas et al [14]	2010	78/F	N/A	No
6	Kumar et al [13]	2013	89/M	Body only	No
7	Boyce et al [15]	2014	61/F	Neck and body	Yes
8	Lu et al [8]	2014	88/M	Body and tail	No
9	Patel et al [3]	2016	65/M	Body and tail	No
10	Wang et al [9]	2017	102/F	Body and tail	No