Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...

The difference in the outcomes reported was because of excessive complications in the PBD group using plastic stents. We argue that these patients need treatment in regional pancreatic cancer ...

How pancreatic cancer causes jaundice ... then a gastroenterologist will do an ERCP and put a stent inside bile duct to ...

Obstructive jaundice is often the first symptom of malignant disease of the pancreas (for example, pancreatic ampullary carcinoma and carcinoma of the papilla of Vater). As jaundice increases, it ...