Carbon dioxide insufflation during ERCP significantly reduces postprocedural abdominal pain. No side effects were observed. Carbon dioxide should be the standard gas used for insufflation in ERCP.
ERCP is feasible and safe in the workup of neonatal cholestasis where other imaging modalities are inconclusive. Despite the expanding role of magnetic resonance cholangiography, ERCP may still have a role in the multidisciplinary workup of these patients.
We report a case of two simultaneously occurring hypopharyngeal-oesophageal diverticula. one apparent originating above. the other below the cricopharvngeal muscle. The radiological and clinical findings of tis rare condition are condition are presnted.
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