Abstract
Currently, acute pancreatitis associated with pancreatic necrosis (or extra-pancreatic necrosis) presents with poor outcomes, with mortality reaching up to 20%. 1 During the last decade, the management of this dreadful condition has changed through the development of medical resuscitation, computed tomography (CT)-guided or ultrasound (US)-guided drainages. 2 Indeed, open surgical necrosectomy is not anymore a first-line treatment, while the percutaneous catheter drainage 3 and the endoscopic transluminal drainage (with or without necrosectomy) 4 have been demonstrated as safe and effective. Yet, a minimally invasive surgical approach may be required when the noninvasive drainage is inefficient or inaccessible. In this video, we show a reproducible pancreatic necrosectomy using a single port.
No funding has been received for this work from any of the following organizations: National Institutes of Health (NIH); Wellcome Trust; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI); or any others.
No competing financial interests exist.
Runtime of video: 3 mins 48 secs
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
Supplementary Material
Please find the following supplemental material available below.
For Open Access articles published under a Creative Commons License, all supplemental material carries the same license as the article it is associated with.
For non-Open Access articles published, all supplemental material carries a non-exclusive license, and permission requests for re-use of supplemental material or any part of supplemental material shall be sent directly to the copyright owner as specified in the copyright notice associated with the article.
