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 ...

Background and Aim: We report our single-centre experience with endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) of solid pancreatic lesions with regard to clinical utility ...

An endoscopic pancreatic function test (ePFT), also known as a secretin pancreatic function test, is the most accurate way to directly test how the pancreas is working. Despite its accuracy ...

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 ...