Incidence and Significance of Juxtapapillary Diverticula at Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Digestion
- Vol. 20 (1), 31-35
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000198411
Abstract
In a retrospective study of 755 patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography from 1973 to 1977 at the Royal Free Hospital, 38 (5%) had a juxtapapillary diverticulum. This resulted in a significantly higher failure rate of cannulation of the ampulla of Vater (40 vs. 20% in the remainder of the group; p < 0.02). The presence of a juxtapapillary diverticulum was also significantly associated with an increase of cholelithiasis (48 vs. 24%; p < 0.01), and with jaundice or cholangitis developing after cholecystectomy (27 vs. 8%; p < 0.001). There was no evidence that the diverticula were the cause of biliary or pancreatic obstruction.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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