Pancreatitis: Preventing catastrophic haemorrhage

Figure 1 Computed tomography arterial and venous phase showing a pseudocyst (green arrows) eroding the splenic artery (blue arrows)[90].

Figure 2 Computed tomography arterial and venous phases showing a pseudoaneurysm in a patient with necrotizing pancreatitis.

Figure 3 Three-D coronal maximum-intensity-projection computed tomography image in a 45-year-old man who had remote history of pancreatitis presented with back pain showing 2. 0-cm pseudoaneurysm (arrow) arising from splenic artery[91].

Figure 4 Splenic artery pseudoaneurysm before and after embolization. A: Post contrast computed tomography scan showing the pseudoaneurysm rising from the splenic artery; B: Pre embolization selective splenic arterial DSA angiography image showing pseudoaneurysm; C: Post embolization DSA image showing the coils inside the splenic artery with its resultant embolization[92].