Pancreatoscopy
Chapter 25 Pancreatoscopy Tadashi Kodama, Tatsuya Koshitani The relative inaccessibility of the pancreatobiliary tract by endoscopy has meant that the evaluation of pancreatobiliary disease has relied on radiographic imaging by…
Cholangioscopy
Chapter 26 Cholangioscopy Introduction Peter B. Kelsey Advances in cholangiopancreatoscopy continue to broaden the interventionalist’s scope of effectiveness in the diagnosis and management of biliary and pancreatic disease. Continued design…
Malignant Biliary Obstruction: Distal
Chapter 36 Malignant Biliary Obstruction Distal Sandeep Krishnan, Douglas Pleskow Malignant strictures of the pancreaticobiliary tree are often difficult to diagnose and treat. They present late and hence these factors…
Choledocholithiasis
Chapter 43 Choledocholithiasis James Y.W. Lau, Yuk Tong Lee, Joseph Sung Gallstone disease is a common condition. It is estimated that in the United States between 500,000 and 700,000 cholecystectomies…
Medicolegal Issues in ERCP
Chapter 12 Medicolegal Issues in ERCP Peter Cotton, James T. Frakes Medicine is an imprecise science, influenced by the vagaries and unpredictable nature of biologic systems and the art of…
Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas
Chapter 48 Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas Won Jae Yoon, William R. Brugge Cystic lesions of the pancreas consist of a spectrum of benign, premalignant, and variably invasive malignancies. In…
Chronic Pancreatitis: Stones and Strictures
Chapter 52 Chronic Pancreatitis Stones and Strictures Jacques Devière Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a rare disease in Western countries (incidence of 2 to 10 per 100,000 per year). It ultimately…
The ERCP Room
Chapter 2 The ERCP Room Steven A. Edmundowicz The endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) room can range from very basic to state-of-the-art. While smaller centers with low ERCP volumes can adequately…
Biliary Intervention in Acute Gallstone Pancreatitis
Chapter 50 Biliary Intervention in Acute Gallstone Pancreatitis Ayaz Matin, David L. Carr-Locke Gallstones are the most common cause of pancreatitis, accounting for approximately 35% of cases of acute pancreatitis…
ERCP Training
Chapter 8 ERCP Training Juergen Hochberger, Juergen Maiss, Todd H. Baron Proficiency in all aspects of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) requires several years of practical training and continuous refinement of…
