“…Somatostatin's action is direct by suppressing glandular secretion (7,16) as well as indirect by suppressing the secretion of gastrointestinal hormones (6,10,16). The reduction of pancreatic juice formation and enzyme secretion enables fistulas to close and ductal leakage to stop (7,13,15), but fistula closure by octreotide treatment was impaired by the existence of a pseudocyst (15). Also, a pancreatic pseudocyst in a 15‐month‐old child, which developed as a complication of the relapsing pancreatitis, did not disappear with octreotide treatment (6).…”