Pancreatic Sphincteroplasty for Relapsing Pancreatitis

R. Matthew Walsh, MD

Product Details
Product ID: ACS-2125
Year Produced: 2000
Length: 19 min.


The surgical treatment of pancreatitis in the non-acute setting typically involves either ductal drainage or parenchymal resection. In well established chronic pancreatitis, ductal drainage is successfully achieved with longitudinal lateral drainage of the pancreatic body. Occasionally, a primary anatomic ductal abnormality permits transsphincteric treatment in relapsing pancreatitis prior to fibrotic changes in the parenchyma. This may occur in the setting of pancreatic divisum. Herein is displayed a transsphincteric drainage success of endoscopic stenting.