Into the duct: an unusual source of bacteremia

A 52-year-old male presented to the hospital with a three-day history of high-grade fever (over 39.0 °C), arthralgia, and headache. He was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis for the first time when he was 28. Since then, he had been admitted several times due to chronic pancreatitis. The cause of chronic pancreatitis had been assumed to be alcohol consumption. Three months prior, he received an end oscopic ultrasound-fine needle aspiration to evaluate a mass in the pancreatic head, which yielded no evidence of malignancy.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Diagnostic dilemma Source Type: research