Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...

and prophylactic placement of a pancreatic duct stent in high-risk patients. A proper understanding of the patient- and procedure-related risk factors has led to a strategy of carefully selecting ...

How pancreatic cancer causes jaundice ... then a gastroenterologist will do an ERCP and put a stent inside bile duct to ...

Obstructive jaundice is often the first symptom of malignant disease of the pancreas (for example, pancreatic ampullary carcinoma and carcinoma of the papilla of Vater). As jaundice increases, it ...