Surgery, which traditionally was the major treatment approach for pancreatic pseudocysts, has been challenged by newer endoscopic techniques. Given the low complication and mortality rates and the ...

Therefore, thorough preoperative imaging including EUS, MRCP or ERCP, and sometimes pancreatic ductoscopy, which can also be repeated intraoperatively, is useful. The surgeon needs to be prepared to ...

ERCP is used primarily to diagnose and treat conditions of the bile ducts and pancreas. ERCP combines the use of x-rays and an endoscope, which is a long, flexible, lighted tube. Through the endoscope ...

After ductal communication is documented with a pancreatogram by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), a guidewire is passed across the pancreatic sphincter, preferably into the ...