4628 Intraductal ultrasound combined with ercp: is there a diagnostic advantage in pancreato-biliary disease?

Endoscopic Ultrasonography

“…Intraductal high-frequency miniprobes were shown to be useful in a variety of pancreaticobiliary diseases, including assessment of the longitudinal spread of biliary cancer [51]; intraductal mucinous pancreatic tumors [52 -54]; detection of CBD stones [55]; sludge [56]; papillary adenomas [57]; and biliary strictures [58,59]. An interesting abstract demonstrated that endosonographically evident ductal wall thickening and CBD sludge are frequent findings after stent placement for obstructive jaundice [60], and another showed that EUS is useful for small polypoid gallbladder lesions [61].…”