“…Surgical sphincterotomy is usually reserved when endoscopic therapy is not available or for restenosis after endoscopic intervention. The outcomes of 18 studies reporting efficacy of sphincterotomy are shown in Table 6 [3,7,8,26,28,34,37,[46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]. Follow-up ranged from a mean 3 months to 3.1 years.…”