title: [Pancreatic pseudocysts: choice of treatment?].
abstract: Pseudocysts of the pancreas may require drainage or resection during their evolution. External drainage can be considered as a treatment of first resort with low related morbidity. It also offers a means of treating patients with major contraindications for surgery. In our experience, however, only 55% of external drainages prove successful. Therefore, surgical treatment, even at the cost of low-rate morbidity, remains the only final treatment for complications linked to pseudocysts of the pancreas. In the long term, however, these results depend on the etiology of the pseudocysts.
authors.affiliation: Département de chirurgie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rouijel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Savioz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bühler
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pelloni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mentha
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Morel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D012086:Reoperation; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Pseudokystes du pancréas: quel traitement choisir?