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CASE REPORT
Hyperamylasaemia: pathognomonic to pancreatitis?
  1. Sam Burden1,
  2. Anna Sau Kuk Poon2,
  3. Kausar Masood3,
  4. Mohamed Didi4
  1. 1Department of Medicine, North Middlesex Hospital, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Anaesthesia, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK
  3. 3Bute House Medical Centre, Luton, UK
  4. 4Medicine of the Elderly, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Anna Sau Kuk Poon, annaskpoon{at}yahoo.co.uk

Summary

An 82-year-old woman, presented with a history of vomiting, abdominal mass and a significantly raised amylase, but no clinical evidence of pancreatitis. Abdominal ultrasound and CT scans showed an ovarian tumour, and no evidence of pancreatitis—as is often associated with a raised amylase. The patient underwent bilateral ovariectomy and hysterectomy and made a good recovery.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-009567

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