Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of postoperative intra-abdominal abscesses

Table 1 Patient characteristics

Case	Age (yr)/sex	Primary disease	Surgical procedure	Abscess size (mm)	Primary treatment for abscess	EUS-D route	Time to EUS-D (d)	EUS-D modality	Drainage length (d)	Complications/abscess recurrence
1	60/F	Rectal cancer	Low anterior rectal resection	61 × 55	Surgical drainage	TG	69 p.o.	6-Fr NB	11	None
2	46/F	MCN	Distal pancreatectomy	54 × 33	None	TG	26 p.o.	6-Fr NB	11	None
3	74/M	PDAC	Distal pancreatectomy	62 × 35	None	TG	10 p.o.	7-Fr stent	20	None
				66 × 42	None	TG	21 p.o.	6-Fr NB	8	None
4	69/M	IPMN	Distal pancreatectomy	70 × 45	Percutaneous drainage	TG	18 p.o.	7-Fr stent, 6-Fr NB	7-Fr stent: no removal 6-Fr NB: 10 per-cutaneous: 24	None

EUS-D: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage; TG: Transgastric; p.o.: Postoperative day; MCN: Mucinous cystic neoplasm; NB: Nasal biliary catheter; PDAC: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; IPMN: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm.