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Intraosseous fat necrosis is a well-known complication of
pancreatitis1-11.
Vertebral osteonecrosis associated with pancreatitis has been described only
once, to our knowledge, and on that occasion it was associated with
trauma-induced pancreatitis in a
child12. There have
been no reports of symptomatic vertebral osteonecrosis associated with
pancreatitis in an adult, to our knowledge, although such lesions were
described in an autopsy
report11. We
present a case of fatal pancreatitis in a woman who had pancreas divisum,
adenocarcinoma of the dorsal aspect of the pancreas, and associated
osteonecrosis of the thoracolumbar spine.