An audit of percutaneous drainage for acute necrotic collections and walled off necrosis in patients with acute pancreatitis

Percutaneous catheter drainage (PCD) is used as a first step in the management of symptomatic fluid collections in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP). We aimed to compare the outcome of patients with acute necrotic collection (ANC) and those with walled-off necrosis (WON), who had undergone PCD as a part of management of AP.

Source: Pancreatology - August 20, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Bipadabhanjan Mallick, Narendra Dhaka, Pankaj Gupta, Ajay Gulati, Sarthak Malik, Saroj K. Sinha, Thakur D. Yadav, Vikas Gupta, Rakesh Kochhar Source Type: research