Short- and long-term results of endoscopic ultrasound-guided transmural drainage for pancreatic pseudocysts and walled-off necrosis
Yuto Watanabe, Rintaro Mikata, Shin Yasui, Hiroshi Ohyama, Harutoshi Sugiyama, Yuji Sakai, Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Naoya Kato
Yuto Watanabe, Rintaro Mikata, Shin Yasui, Hiroshi Ohyama, Harutoshi Sugiyama, Yuji Sakai, Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Naoya Kato, Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo Ward, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
Author contributions: Watanabe Y and Mikata R designed research; Watanabe Y, Mikata R, Yasui S, Ohyama H, Sugiyama H, Sakai Y and Tsuyuguchi T acquired the data; Watanabe Y and Mikata R analyzed and interpreted data; Watanabe Y drafted the manuscript; Mikata R and Kato N made critical revisions related to important intellectual content of the manuscript; all authors have read and approved the final version to be published.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Chiba University Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent statement: In this retrospective study, written informed consent was not provided by the participants, but the documents explaining how the data included in this study would be used were displayed on the bulletin board in Chiba University Hospital.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no conflicts to disclose. All authors disclosed no financial relationships relevant to this publication.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Correspondence to: Rintaro Mikata, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Inohana 1-8-1, Chuo Ward, Chiba 260-8670, Japan. mikata@faculty.chiba-u.jp
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Received: August 2, 2017
Peer-review started: August 11, 2017
First decision: August 30, 2017
Revised: September 12, 2017
Accepted: September 26, 2017
Article in press: September 26, 2017
Published online: October 21, 2017
