Endoscopic treatment for pancreatic diseases: Needle-knife-guided cannulation via the minor papilla

Table 1 Published data on cannulation via the minor papilla

Ref.	Year	No.	Cannulation procedure	Success (%)	Complication (%)
18	1984	6	Blunt tipped needle catheter	83.3	0
1	1986	6	Flexible Seldinger wire with a dilator and papillotome	100	0
19	1987	18	Needle-tipped catheter or 0.018 inch guidewire	72.9	4.2
11	1990	136	Tapered or needle-tipped catheter + secretin (35% patients)	91	1.5
20	1992	19	Tapered catheter with 0.018 inch guidewire	83	NA
2	2000	25	Tapered catheter with 0.018 or 0.02 inch guidewire	73.5	0
3	2002	24	Tapered catheter with 0.018 inch guidewire	NA	38
23	2003	6	Contour catheter with 0.025 or 0.035 inch wire (rendezvous technique)	100	0
15	2003	14	Methylene blue + needle tipped catheter with 0.018 inch guidewire	85.7	7.1
16	2003	28	Synthetic porcine secretin	89.3	0
4	2004	11	Catheter with 0.025 inch guidewire (including rendezvous technique), needle-knife to minor papilla fistulotomy	90.9	0
21	2006	184	Tapered or metal tip catheter with 0.018 or 0.025 inch guidewire	NA	8.2
6	2008	57	Tapered cannula with a guidewire + secretin (10% patients)	86	11.7
17	2009	64	Pull-sphincterotome with 0.018-0.035 inch guidewire (wire-guided cannulation) + secretin (17% patients)	85	26.5
22	2010	25	Tip sphincterotome with a 0.025 inch guidewire (physician-controlled wire-guided cannulation)	96	12
8	2013	34	Tapered catheter with or without 0.025 inch guidewire	80	4.5
9	2013	48	Tapered cannula and a 0.025 or 0.035 inch guidewire	97.9	2.0
10	2013	45	Tapered-tip or needle-tip catheters, short-nose pull-sphincterotomes, and 0.018-0.035 inch guidewires	91.9	16.1

PD: Pancreas divisum; NA: Not available; No.: Number of patients.