Abstract
Acute pancreatitis is one of the common causes of the acute abdomen that should be included in any differential diagnosis for acute abdominal pain; it is also well known with its variant causes, of which most common is biliary tree stones, alcoholic pancreatitis, followed by a long list of other less common causes. We have reported a rare case of relapsing acute pancreatitis due to atypical sporadic hypertriglyceridemia (Frederickson’s type IV) in a young male patient who was seen in the accident and emergency department presenting with severe agonizing abdominal pain, with history of recurrent similar attacks, which were unfortunately misdiagnosed elsewhere.
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Monib, S.M., El-Barbary, H.M. Acute Relapsing Pancreatitis with Pseudocyst Formation due to Sporadic Hypertriglyceridemic Pancreatitis: A Case Report. Indian J Surg 75 (Suppl 1), 340–344 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-012-0701-7
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