Blunt Pancreatic Injury in Major Trauma: Decision-Making between Nonoperative and Operative Treatment

Figure 1

(Patient 1, scan 1) 18 days after trauma. CT scan of the abdomen showing pancreatitis with large expanding pseudocysts with a maximum diameter of 8 cm in the pancreas head-corpus transition area. Pigtail drainage was placed with guidance from CT in the fluid accumulation/pseudocyst from the left flank side. The drainage system emptied brown-tinged serous fluid.