The purpose of this study is to examine the clinical usefulness and the problems ofendoscopic approach to pancreatic diseases by sheath method.
The subjects are 139 cases with pancreatic diseases (31 cancer, 2metastatic cancer, 55chronic pancreatitis, 42 mucin-producing tumor, 4 islet cell tumor, 2serous cyst adenoma, 1teratoma, 1solid cystic turnor, 1fatty change) for intraductal exarnination (intraductalultrasonography, peroral pancreatoscopy and pancreatic biopsy) and in 5 cases withpancreatolithiasis for intraductal treatment. We examined the clinical usefulness andproblems of the sheath method in comparison with the non-sheath method.
This sheath methed is useful for the improvement of the endurance of these instruments, the decrease of the number of times of examination, the shortening of examinationtime and the effect of washing out the pancreatic duct in the treatment of the pancreatciithiasis through pancreatoscopy. The problems of this method are that speciments obtainedby the pancreatic biopsy are small for the diagnosis (of the pancreatic diseases) and thatit is difficult to insert the instruments into the pancreatic duct when the sheath is bentduring the examination and the treatment. The acute pancreatitis as one complication isseen in 2 of 117 cases of sheath method (1.7%), one of 22 cases of non-sheath method (4.5%) in the examinations and no camplicataon in the treatment of pancreatelithiasis.
In conclusion, the sheath method could allow us the intraductal examinations andtreatment of the pancreatic diseases more easily.
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