Our results with endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided drainage of pancreatic fluid collections (PFC)
A Szepes, G Gyimesi, M Janota, T Velkei, P Hausinger, I Hritz, L Madácsy, Z Dubravcsik · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2014 · Heft 05
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Zusammenfassung
Background: The management of PFCs has changed over the last decades. The surgical approach at certain criteria was turned into the minimal invasive technologies such as endoscopy- or EUS-guided drainage. EUS has the advantage that the interposed vessels could be passed by and the majority of the non-bulging cysts could be drained. In our study we prospectively collected and analyzed our data between 2010 and 2014. Method: 38 pts were referred to PFC drainage and 34 (9 women, 7 walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN) and 27 pseudocysts) underwent the EUS-guided operation, but in 4 the non-bulging PFCs were far fro…
