[Therapeutic strategy of transgastral stenting in retrogastral abscesses]

Zentralbl Chir. 2002 May;127(5):457-9. doi: 10.1055/s-2002-31978.
[Article in German]

Abstract

We report on two patients with postinterventional retrogastric abscesses, one as a postoperative complication after partial pancreatectomy, one as a complication of biliary pancreatitis. In both cases, the abscess cavity could be completely drained by EUS-guided endoscopic application of a short "Amsterdam" stent, length 4 cm, 11.5 Fr. The stents could be removed by endoscopy after an interval of several weeks. In suitable cases EUS-guided endoscopic transgastral stenting appears to be the therapy of choice for retrogastral abscesses.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Abscess / diagnostic imaging
  • Abdominal Abscess / therapy*
  • Aged
  • Drainage / instrumentation*
  • Duodenoscopy / methods*
  • Endosonography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pancreatectomy*
  • Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / surgery*
  • Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic*
  • Stents*
  • Surgical Wound Infection / diagnostic imaging
  • Surgical Wound Infection / therapy*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed