CT findings of the commonly overlooked groove pancreatitis

Although the CT features of GP mimic other peripancreatic tumors, yet the constantly associated findings in the proven cases of GP in our study were: duodenal wall thickening, cysts formation, and luminal narrowing. So the presence of these features in alcoholic middle aged male patient with groove or pancreatic lesion, have to trigger radiologist's dubiety of GP entity and so to be addressed in his opinion. Nevertheless, GP diagnosis is still challenging & should be considered based on clinical & radiological data in conjunction with the laboratory and pathological results.