title: Endoscopic Management of Pancreatic Fluid Collections.
abstract: Pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs) may develop due to inflammation secondary to acute and/or chronic pancreatitis, trauma, surgery, or obstruction from solid or cystic neoplasms. PFCs can be drained percutaneously, surgically, or endoscopically with endoscopic ultrasound-guided cyst gastrostomy and/or transpapillary drainage through endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. There has been a paradigm shift in the endoscopic management of PFCs in the past few years with newer techniques including utilization of self-expanding metal stents and multiport devices. This review is a comprehensive update on the classification of PFC, indications for drainage, optimal approach, and techniques.
authors.affiliation: *Section of Digestive Disease †Division of General Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
authors.forename: Thiruvengadam
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Muniraj
authors.forename: Priya A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Jamidar
authors.forename: William H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Nealon
authors.forename: Harry R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Aslanian
mesh_terms: D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde / Q000379:methods; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods*; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D019160:Endosonography / Q000379:methods; D005766:Gastrointestinal Contents; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010179:Pancreas / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000601:surgery; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome