Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...

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 ...

"Among all the precancerous cysts removed through surgery, about 50% likely ... Krishna and his team reach the pancreas through a procedure called endoscopic ultrasound. This approach allows ...

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 ...

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 ...

Necrotizing pancreatitis: looking back at new frontiers ...

Tingbo Liang, an expert in hepatic, biliary, and pancreatic surgery, who heads the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University has improved chemotherapy treatment for pancreatic cancer ...