Lavage of a mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas with povidone iodate

Mucinous cystadenomas of the pancreas may progress to malignancy. Surgery is the treatment of choice.1,2 An 88 year old man presented with postprandial vomiting and intractable gastric pain due to an 8 cm pancreatic cyst compressing and displacing the pyloric antrum (fig 1). His picture included (inter alia) ischaemic cardiopathy and he …