Prediction and management of bleeding during endoscopic necrosectomy for pancreatic walled-off necrosis: results of a large retrospective cohort at a tertiary referral center

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Post written by Ian Holmes, MD, from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Over the last 10 years, the management of pancreatic walled-off necrosis (WON) has evolved with the development of minimally invasive endoscopic approaches to cystgastrostomy and necrosectomy. Endoscopic necrosectomy (EN) has become a widely favored strategy because of the low rates of …

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Endoscopic management of symptomatic walled-off omental fat necrosis

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Post written by C. Roberto Simons-Linares, MD, and Prabhleen Chahal, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. We describe a case a 57-year-old man with a history of neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas status post-laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy that presented to us with severe abdominal pain and found …

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