2001 Volume 59 Issue 2 Pages 128-129
A twenty-year-old male had failed with the conservative treatment of a traumatic pancreatic pseudocyst and had documented cyst persistence for over four weeks. The size of the pseudocyst was 110mm in diameter and CT scans showed apposition of the pseudocyst in the pancreatic body to tail against the stomach wall. We performed EUS-guided transgastric puncture of the pseudocyst with a 19 gauge ultrasound needle (ECHO TIP. Wilson-Cook Medical) , then a 0.035 inch guide wire was passed into the pseudocyst after with drawn of a stylet and a 7-F stent coaxially inserted into the pseudocyst. There were no complications associated with the procedure. The pseudocyst had collapsed in five days after the drainage. The pseudocyst had completely resolved at follow-up of six months after the drainage.
