A 66-year-old man with a history of alcoholism was referred to our center due to recurrent pancreatitis. Previous surgical exploration with biopsies demonstrated the benign nature of a pancreatic head mass. Enhanced computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) revealed a thickened descending duodenum, inflammation in the groove area, and cyst-solid lesion in the pancreatic head, suggesting groove pancreatitis ([Fig. 1]).
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