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Endoscopic transgastric EUS guided drainage and necrosectomy of infected pancreas pseudocysts (PP)
H Matthes, G Schenk, C Janiszewski · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2004 · Heft 08
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Introduction: Clinical studies have demonstrated excellent success and low complication rates with endoscopic transgastric drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts (PP). In many cases PP can be infected and endoscopic drainage is insufficient in removing infected tissue, so a necrosectomy is necessary. Methods: We investigated the effect and outcome of transgastric endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided necrosectomy of infected PP in 8 patients (5 male, 3 female, age 36–78) treated in our clinic between 10/2002–02/2004. All patients showed elevated WBC, CRP and fever or sepsis. We carried out a two-step procedure. The fir…
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EUS
endoscopic drainage
pancreas pseudocyst
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Sepsis
Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
