ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The ideal management of common bile duct (CBD) stones is preoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) which should be safe and cost effective. The time interval between ERCP and LC is a matter of debate. AIM: To evaluate the effect of time interval between ERCP and LC in patients with calcular obstructive jaundice as ... إقراء المزيد

Objective: Both endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) cytology may provide tissue diagnoses in solid pancreatic neoplasms. However, there are scant data comparing these two methods. This study aims at retrospectively comparing EUS-FNA and ERCP tissue sampling and ability of cytopathological diagnosis in solid pancreatic neoplasms and to determine usefulness and adverse events of combining ... إقراء المزيد

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_ABSTRACT_ Purpose: A prospective work to study and evaluate surgical and endoscopic techniques used in management of post cholecystectomy problems. Patients & Methods: In the period from Mars 2000 to October 2010, a random sample of 630 patients (366 females and 264 males) were enrolled from general surgery department, and gastro-intestinal endoscopy unit, Assuit University hospitals, and managed accordingly using ... إقراء المزيد

ENDOSCOPY PROGRESS AND UPDATES; SOME INTERESTING CASES OF ERCP EXPERIENCE TALK AFTER 20 YEARS IN MAJOR REFERRAL CENTERS. By Alaa Ahmad Redwan M.D, Ph.D Prof. of HBP Surgery & Laparo endoscopy Sohag university hospitals, Sohag, Egypt _ABSTRACT_ Purpose: A prospective and retrospective work to study and evaluate the endoscopic role in management of G.I.T problems, in comparison to surgical one ... إقراء المزيد

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Pancreatitis is the most common and serious complication to occur after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) resulting in substantial morbidity and occasional mortality. Biliary cannulation is unsuccessful during 5%–10% of ERCP procedures. Needle knife sphincterotomy (NKS) can improve success of cannulation but is often used as a last resort. Repeated attempts at cannulating the papilla of Vater and “needle-knief” ... إقراء المزيد

Abstract Post-Cholecystectomy problems are very common complaint encountered in the out patient clinic. In this work, 200 patients with post cholecytectomy problems were managed using endoscopic approaches (120 females and 80 males), the study reveals that most of these problems are preventable by better evaluation pre operatively, and good surgical skills during operation. Variable presentations were encountered as bile leakage, ... إقراء المزيد

Abstract Selected 240 cases obstructive jaundice. 120 cases calcular obstruction and 120 cases with malignant obstruction were studied of idenfication of the main causes of post ER.C.P. infective complications. The clinical, laboratory and endoscopic findings are discussed. It as found that the most important infective complications after E.R.C.B are biliary bacteremia, cholangitis, pancreatitis and septicemia, and the most important predisposing ... إقراء المزيد

_ABSTRACT_ _In this study, 70 cases of choledocholithiasis were included from general surgery department, Assuit university hospital and Kasr El-Eni university hospital and managed randomly by either approaches including conventional surgery, endoscopic approaches, and laparoscopic techniques._ _Ages of our patients were ranged from 20-60 years (mean 40 years), with slight female predominance (female to male = 1.6: 1), most of ... إقراء المزيد