Paracolic Gutter Pancreatitis

The adjacent second and third segments of the duodenum demonstrate mural thickening in keeping with reactive change.

Paracolic gutter pancreatitis.

Recently endoscopic necrosectomy has become the mainstay for management. There is moderate and diffuse peripancreatic fat stranding. Walled off pancreatic necrosis won is a sequelae of acute pancreatitis that requires debridement once infected. There is a moderate volume of free intraabdominal fluid with pockets scattered through the mesentery and pooling in the paracolic gutters.

Transcutaneous endoscopic necrosectomy through a fully covered metal esophageal stent transgastric endoscopic necrosectomy with nasocystic lavage is accepted as one of the standards of care for the management of walled off necrosis secondary to acute pancreatitis. Cleaning the paracolic gutter. The left medial paracolic gutter. However peripancreatic collections that extend to the paracolic gutter or lesser sac are more challenging to treat endoscopically.

The right and left paracolic gutter are connected to subphrenic spaces proximally and to the pelvic area at the distal end. The right and left paracolic gutters are peritoneal recesses on the posterior abdominal wall lying alongside the ascending and descending colon. The paracolic gutter is associated with a subphrenic abscess.