Endoscopic Treatment of Chronic Pancreatitis: A Multicenter Study of 1000 Patients with Long-Term Follow-Up - Concepedia

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Endoscopic Treatment of Chronic Pancreatitis: A Multicenter Study of 1000 Patients with Long-Term Follow-Up

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2002

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Thomas Rösch, Sunitha Daniel, M. Scholz, K. Huibregtse, M. Smits, Thomas Schneider, C. Ell, J. F. Riemann, Ralf Jakobs, R Hintze,

Abstract

Endoscopic ductal decompression therapy offers relief of pain in two-thirds of the patients when it is used as the only form of treatment. One-quarter of the patients have to undergo surgery.