Pancreatic pseudocyst, the most common cystic lesion ... Currently, at least 3 major forms of therapy are available: percutaneous drainage, surgical intervention, and endoscopic drainage.

Excision of pancreatic pseudocysts in the body ... and When endoscopic or percutaneous treatments fail. Thus, it appears that laparoscopic drainage is less successful than open drainage, and ...

biliary drainage before surgery for pancreatic cancer can improve the ... 4 In 3–5% of patients the percutaneous transhepatic route must be used rather than the transduodenal route due to ...

We thank Prof. Nizze for his valuable comments to our article. The Atlanta classification does indeed distinguish between pseudocysts on the basis of the underlying disease (acute or chronic ...