[Three children with pancreatic (pseudo)cysts as the cause of undefined abdominal pain].

Three children, two boys aged 5 years and one 2-year-old girl, who were referred because of abdominal pain of variable duration, were found to have cystic malformations that arose from the pancreas. In the first boy, a traumatic pseudocyst was found that eventually turned out to have been caused by child abuse. The second boy had pseudocysts complicating chronic pancreatitis of presumably hereditary origin. In the girl, a congenital pancreatic cyst was found. Pancreatic disease, although rare, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in children.