Abstract
A 22-year-old man was injured in a traffic accident and diagnosed with a type III pancreatic injury. Because his vital signs were stable, transcatheter arterial embolization was performed for bleeding around the pancreatic injury and the decision was made to manage the injury nonoperatively. Because pseudocysts in the injured portion of the pancreas increased over the course of treatment and abdominal symptoms appeared, the case was followed up with a planned pancreatic cystojejunostomy. If prior diagnostic imaging had shown a primary pancreatic duct injury, a laparotomy would have been performed immediately. However, when a patient's condition is stable, even if there is a primary pancreatic duct injury, nonoperative management is feasible.
