[Pseudotumoral form of abdominal tuberculosis: report of four cases].

Purpose: To report the imaging features of four cases of pseudo-tumoral abdominal tuberculosis in order to demonstrate diagnostic difficulties, even in endemic areas, despite expanding imaging modalities.

Material And Methods: We have retrospectively reviewed four cases investigated in our hospital between 1998 and 2002. The first case concerned a 2 year and 6 month old boy admitted for a right iliac fossa mass.

[Hydatic acute pancreatitis: a case report].

Acute pancreatitis caused by hydatic cyst of the liver was rarely reported. The authors report a new case of hydatic pancreatitis characterized by visualization of hydatid membranes in the biliary tract without any biliary stone or alcoholic consumption.