Efficacy of stent and drainage for blunt pancreatic injury

Endoscopic stenting in grade III pancreatic injury according to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma – a systematic review of case reports and case series

“…One common complication of pancreatic injury is pseudocyst formation [4,10], which may occur in both endoscopically and conservatively treated patients [1,2,4,10,14]. In our study, despite using ERCP, 7/34 cases (20.6%) were associated with pseudocyst formation (in one case described by Cattaneo et al -pseudocyst appeared before ERCP); one of them was treated by surgery.…”