title: Ultrasound-guided drainage of walled-off pancreatic necrosis. Case report.
abstract: ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) represents a safe endoscopic procedure and serious complications (perforation, haemorrhage, and acute pancreatitis) are usually uncommon. We present the case of a 38-year-old patient with gallstones in the common biliary duct who developed acute pancreatitis after ERCP. One month later a huge fluid collection with necrotic tissue in the right paracolic gutter was found, the fluid being drained by percutaneous drainage under ultrasonographic guiding. The particularity of the case is the post-ERCP pancreatitis, complicated with walled-off necrosis, resolved without surgical intervention by using percutaneous drainage.
authors.affiliation: Radiology Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Popa
authors.affiliation: Gastroenterology Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Romania. m_ilie2001@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Madalina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ilie
authors.affiliation: Gastroenterology Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Oana
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Plotogea
authors.affiliation: Surgery Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Ionut
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Olteanu
authors.affiliation: Surgery Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Claudiu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Turculet
authors.affiliation: Gastroenterology Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Constantinescu
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009336:Necrosis; D010179:Pancreas / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional