Dorsal Agenesis of Pancreas Manifesting Clinically as Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Rare Case Study
Praveen Kumar Devarbhavi
Faculty of Medicine, SS Institute of Medical Sciences, Davangere, Karnataka, India.
Kishan Ashok Bhagwat
Department of Radio-diagnosis, S.S. Institute of Medical Sciences, Davangere, Karnataka, India.
Tammarao Patil
Department of Medicine, SS Institute of Medical Sciences, Davangere, Karnataka, India.
C. R. Vasudeva Murthy *
Department of Pathology, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Srikumar Chakravarthi
Department of Pathology, Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Malaysia.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
There have been reports of several developmental anomalies of the pancreas in the past two decades, and among these, one of the rare entities is dorsal agenesis of the pancreas [1]. Our report is on an 18-year-old male patient who presented with total agenesis of the dorsal pancreas. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen revealed a normal pancreatic head, but there was no observation of the body and tail of the pancreas. A magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) confirmed the absence of the major pancreatic duct. This case was diagnosed as dorsal agenesis of the pancreas. As this is a very unusual case, this has been reported here as a case study due to its rare presentation.
Keywords: Pancreas, dorsal agenesis, diabetes, ketoacidosis