title: Endosonography-guided pancreatic duct drainage for chronic pancreatitis.
abstract: Although endoscopic transpapillary treatment of chronic pancreatitis (CP) is gaining acceptance, it is not always possible, especially in patients with inflammatory stenosis of the duodenum due to CP or with a history of a Whipple's procedure. Linear array echoendoscopes (ES) provide high-quality images of the pancreas along with adjacent organs and allow therapeutic applications. echoendoscope-related procedures, such as ES-guided pancreatic duct drainage (ESPD) are feasible and useful in selected patients with CP suffering from PD stricture in whom conventional endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is impossible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Sendai City Medical Center, Japan. keiito@openhp.or.jp
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Naotaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Horaguchi
mesh_terms: D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods*; D019160:Endosonography; D006801:Humans; D050500:Pancreatitis, Chronic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D011859:Radiography; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional